After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest,
Nevertheless those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
for they have harassed you by the trickery with which they deceived you in the affair of Peor, and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister; she was killed on the day of the plague that resulted from Peor.”
as the Lord had commanded Moses. So he enrolled them in the wilderness of Sinai.