But while they were gorging themselves on the meat—while it was still in their mouths—the anger of the Lord blazed against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
They savored it, holding it long in their mouths.
May God give them a bellyful of trouble. May God rain down his anger upon them.
He released the east wind in the heavens and guided the south wind by his mighty power.
The people ate their fill. He gave them what they craved.
But 14,700 people died in that plague, in addition to those who had died in the affair involving Korah.
So Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
but not before 24,000 people had died.
“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.