⁴⁷ So Aaron rushed into the crowd with his sacred censer, even as people had already begun to suffer the plague. He stood there covering their sins with the incense smoke, ⁴⁸ and where he stood, the plague stopped—dead people on one side, the living on the other. ⁴⁹ Thus the plague ended as swiftly as it had begun, but a full 14,700 died that day, in addition to all those who died in the Korah affair.