However, 24,000 people died from that plague.
So the Lord sent a plague among the Israelites from that morning until the time he had chosen. Of the people from Dan to Beersheba, 70,000 died.
So the Lord killed people because they had Aaron make the calf.
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.
Then the Lord said to Moses,
After the plague the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, son of the priest Aaron,
“Remember, they were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and caused the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the incident that took place at Peor. The Lord’s community experienced a plague at that time.
We shouldn’t sin sexually as some of them did. Twenty-three thousand of them died on one day.
