Then it came about after the plague, that the Lord spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
just as the Lord had commanded Moses. So he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
for they have been hostile to you with their tricks, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was killed on the day of the plague because of Peor.”
But those who died from the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.