Still, 14,700 died from the plague in addition to those who had died because of Korah.
So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 Israelites died.
They died because they had returned and made the whole community complain about Moses by spreading lies about the land.
He stood between those who had died and those who were still alive, and the plague stopped.
By the time Aaron came back to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the plague had stopped.
However, 24,000 people died from that plague.
Don’t complain as some of them did. The angel of death destroyed them.
Be careful that you do not refuse to listen when God speaks. Your ancestors didn’t escape when they refused to listen to God, who warned them on earth. We certainly won’t escape if we turn away from God, who warns us from heaven.