So they provoked Him with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
And let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day 23,000 fell.
Only this have I discovered: God made mankind upright, but they went seeking after many schemes.”
So they defiled themselves by their deeds, and prostituted themselves by their practices.
Adonai our God, You answered them. A forgiving God You were to them, though You avenged their misdeeds.
However, 24,000 were dead because of the plague!
When Israel became bound to Baal of Peor, the anger of Adonai grew hot against Israel.
and went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced them through—both the Israelite man and the woman’s belly. Then the plague among Bnei-Yisrael was stopped.