but those who died in the plague(A) numbered 24,000.(B)

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We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.(A)

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You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor.(A) The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.

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The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders(A) of these people, kill them and expose(B) them in broad daylight before the Lord,(C) so that the Lord’s fierce anger(D) may turn away from Israel.”

So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death(E) those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”(F)

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16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice(A) and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident,(B) so that a plague(C) struck the Lord’s people.

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49 But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.(A) 50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, for the plague had stopped.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:50 In Hebrew texts 16:36-50 is numbered 17:1-15.

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.

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