After the plague was over, the Lord told Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
as the Lord had told Moses to do. Moses conducted this census in the Sinai desert.
because they attacked you deceptively, leading you astray by using Peor and their woman Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader—the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of their devotion to Peor.”
but 24,000 had already died.