So those who died by the plague were 24,000.
So Yahweh sent a pestilence against Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and 70,000 men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
Then Yahweh smote the people because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.
even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before Yahweh.
And he took his stand between the dead and the living, so that the plague was checked.
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Then it happened after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to act unfaithfully against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
Nor let us act in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
