³⁷ these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report^(A) about the land were struck down and died of a plague^(B) before the Lord.

⁴⁹ But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.^(A)

¹⁰ And do not grumble, as some of them did^(A)—and were killed^(B) by the destroying angel.^(C)

⁵ Though you already know all this,^(A) I want to remind you^(B) that the Lord^[a] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.^(C)

¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^(A)