However, 24,000 were dead because of the plague!
So Adonai sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, so that 70,000 men of the people died from Dan to Beersheba.
So Adonai struck the people because of what they did with the calf that Aaron had made.
these men, spreading the bad report about the land, died of the plague in Adonai’s presence.
He stood between the dead and the living and the plague stopped.
Then Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
After the plague, Adonai said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the kohen saying,
Why, they are the ones—because of Balaam’s advice—who caused Bnei-Yisrael to be unfaithful to Adonai in the matter of Peor, so that the plague was on the community of Adonai!
And let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day 23,000 fell.
