Numbers 25:9

and the dead by the plague are twenty-four thousand.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

In Context

8and goes in after the man of Israel to the hollow place, and pierces them both, the man of Israel and the woman—to her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;

10And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35And YHWH plagues the people because they made the calf which Aaron made.

Numbers 16:49and those who die by the plague are fourteen thousand and seven hundred, apart from those who die for the matter of Korah;

Numbers 26:1And it comes to pass, after the plague, that YHWH speaks to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes are seeing that which YHWH has done in Ba‘al-Peor, for every man who has gone after Ba‘al-Peor, your God YHWH has destroyed him from your midst;

1 Corinthians 10:8neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them committed whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

Matthew Henry on Numbers 25:7-16

The Zeal of Phinehas. ( b. c. 1452.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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