This sickness had killed twenty-four thousand people.
So the Lord sent a terrible disease on Israel. It began in the morning and continued until the chosen time to stop. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand people died.
So the Lord caused terrible things to happen to the people because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
The men who gave a very bad report died; the Lord killed them with a terrible sickness.
He stood between the dead and the living, and the sickness stopped there.
The Lord said to Moses,
After the great sickness, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest,
They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and turned the Israelites from the Lord at Peor. Then a terrible sickness struck the Lord’s people.
We must not take part in sexual sins, as some of them did. In one day twenty-three thousand of them died because of their sins.
