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