Numbers 25:9

And those that were the mesim (dead ones) in the maggefah (plague) were twenty and four thousand. 1 [PINCHAS]

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8And he went after the ish Yisroel into the inner tent, and thrust through both of them, the ish Yisroel, and the isha through her belly. So the maggefah (plague) was stopped from the Bnei Yisroel.

10And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35And Hashem plagued HaAm, because they made the Egel, which Aharon made.

Numbers 26:1that Hashem spoke unto Moshe and unto El'azar Ben Aharon HaKohen, saying,

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what Hashem did because of Ba'al-Pe'or; for all the men that followed Ba'al-Pe'or, Hashem Eloheicha hath destroyed them from among you.

1 Corinthians 10:8Neither should we commit zenut as some of them committed zenut and fell in one day twenty-three thousand. + 10:8 Num 25:1,9 . T.N. if Rav Sha'ul is not giving the number that died in one day, a very famous and devastating twenty-four hour period, (with Num 25:4 mentioning other executions and the subsequent total being 24,000, Num 24:9 ), then Rav Sha'ul is referring to those who died in Ex 32:35 , quoting as he does Ex 32:6 in 1C 10:7

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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