but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba 70,000 men died.
And the Lord inflicted a plague on the people for what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord.
He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was halted.
The Lord spoke to Moses,
After the plague, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
“Yet they are the ones who, at Balaam’s advice, incited the Israelites to unfaithfulness against the Lord in the Peor incident, so that the plague came against the Lord’s community.
Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.