Thus they provoked Him with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.
Neither should we commit whoring, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell,
Truly, this only I have found: that Elohim made man straight, but they have sought out many devices.”
So they became unclean by their own works, And went whoring by their own deeds.
You answered them, O יהוה our Elohim. You were a forgiving Ě
And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Thus Yisra’ĕ
and he went after the man of Yisra’ĕ