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The Zeal of Phinehas

Numbers 25:9

In 11 translations

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.
LSV
and the dead by the plague are twenty-four thousand.
YLT
and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.
DBY
And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.
DRC
And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.
GNV
And there died in that plague, foure and twentie thousand.
JPS
And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
LXXE
And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּהְי֕וּ הַמֵּתִ֖ים בַּמַּגֵּפָ֑ה אַרְבָּעָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים אָֽלֶף׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐγένοντο οἱ τεθνηκότες ἐν τῇ πληγῇ, τέσσαρες καὶ εἴκοσι χιλιάδες.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Corinthians 10:8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
  • Deuteronomy 4:3–4Your 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. But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.
  • Numbers 25:4–5Then 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.” So Moses told the judges of Israel, “Each of you…
  • Numbers 16:49–50But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah. Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, since the plague had been halted.
  • 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.
  • 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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