Numbers 16:49

But 14,700 people had already died from that plague/sickness, in addition to the people who died with Korah.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

In Context

48He stood between the people who had already died and those who were still alive, and then the plague stopped.

50Then after the plague had ended, Aaron and Moses/I returned to the entrance of the Sacred Tent.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:32It swallowed them and their families and all those who were standing there with Korah and all of their possessions.

1 Chronicles 21:14So Yahweh sent a plague on the people of Israel, and 70,000 of them died because of it.

Hebrews 10:28Everyone who rejected the laws that God gave Moses was mercilessly killed when at least two or three people testified that they had done that.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 16:42-50

41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord . 42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. 43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. 44 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 45 Get you up from among… Read the whole commentary →

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