After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest,
as the Lord commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague on account of Peor.”
Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.