Those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time. Seventy thousand men from the people died, from Dan to Beer-sheba.
And the Lord plagued the people because they had made the calf, the one that Aaron made.
the men who brought an evil report about the land, died by the pestilence before the Lord.
He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
After the plague, the Lord spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
Behold, these caused the Israelites, through the advice of Balaam, to act unfaithfully against the Lord concerning the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the assembly of the Lord.
Neither let us commit sexual immorality as some of them committed, when twenty-three thousand fell in one day.