but 24,000 had already died.
So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the time designated, and seventy thousand people died from Dan to Beersheba.
The Lord brought a plague on the people because they made Aaron make the bull calf.
those men who gave the bad report died before the Lord from plague.
He stood between those who had died and those who were still alive, and the plague was stopped.
The Lord told Moses,
After the plague was over, the Lord told Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
“You realize that these were the same women who seduced the Israelite men, leading them to be unfaithful to the Lord at Peor, following Balaam's advice! That's why the Lord's people suffered from the plague!
We must not commit sexual sins, as some of them did, and as a result 23,000 died in one day.
