Numbers 26:1

Good News Translation (US Version)

After the epidemic the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron,

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but it had already killed twenty-four thousand people.

because of the evil they did to you when they deceived you at Peor, and because of Cozbi, who was killed at the time of the epidemic at Peor.”

as the Lord had commanded. In the Sinai Desert, Moses registered the people.