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Numbers 25:9

Judgment

7 On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

8 followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,

but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

10 Then the LORD said to Moses,

11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.

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BSB
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
KJV
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
WEB
Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
ASV
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
DARBY
And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
BLB
And those who died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.
ÅB
Og de som døde i sotten, var fire og tyve tusen.
OTB
Men de som døde av pesten, var tjuefire tusen.
B1930
Og de som døde i sotten, var fire og tyve tusen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 10:8

    We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

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  • Deuteronomy 4:3–4

    Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

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  • Numbers 25:4–5

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

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  • Numbers 16:49–50

    But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

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  • Numbers 31:16

    “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.

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  • Numbers 14:37

    those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

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