Numbers 25:9
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
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ASV
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
KJV
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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1 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
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While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
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Numbers 14:37those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
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And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
As far as that goes, we too have examples from this same past in favor of our own way of thinking, examples of a judgment on fornication which was not only not remiss but rather immediately executed. It is quite enough, I should think, that so great a number of the chosen people, twenty-four thousand, perished at one stroke after they had fornicated with the daughters of Midian. I prefer, however, for the glory of Christ, to derive ecclesiastical discipline from Christ.
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. The apostle says 23,000 1Co 10:8. Moses includes those that were hanged against the sun, in the time of the plague, as well as those that were taken off by it, even all that died on this account; the apostle only those that "fell", which cannot with propriety be said of those that were hanged, who might be 1000 and so their numbers agree; but of this and other ways of removing this difficulty See Gill on 1Co 10:8.
Twenty and four thousand - Paul 1Co 10:8 says “three and twenty thousand,” following probably the Jewish tradition which deducted one thousand as the number slain by the hands of their brethren.
