KJV King James Version
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
WEB World English Bible
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
ASV American Standard Version
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.
Surrounding context — Numbers 25
6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who [were] weeping [before] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw [it], he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
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1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.Deuteronomy 4:3-4Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.Numbers 25:4-5And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.Numbers 16:49-50Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.Numbers 31:16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.Numbers 14:37Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
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