Numbers 25:9

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

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman — unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;

10And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35And Jehovah plagueth 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 cometh to pass, after the plague, that Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Deuteronomy 4:3'Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;

1 Corinthians 10:8neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit 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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