The number of people who died was 14,700, not counting those who died in Korah's rebellion.
but it had already killed twenty-four thousand people.
Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape, then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!
So the Lord sent an epidemic on the people of Israel, and seventy thousand of them died.
We must not complain, as some of them did—and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.
This stopped the plague, and he was left standing between the living and the dead.
When the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tent.