Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.
Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;
Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright, But they have sought out many schemes.”
Thus they were defiled by their own works, And played the harlot by their own deeds.
You answered them, O Lord our God; You were to them God-Who-Forgives, Though You took vengeance on their deeds.
And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel.
and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.