Numbers 25:9
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but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
Read Numbers 25:9 Using Other Translations
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
but not before 24,000 people had died.
What does Numbers 25:9 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Numbers 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and
four
thousand.
] The apostle says 23,000 ( 1
Corinthians 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
1 Corinthians 10:8).
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