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Numbers 25

Num. 25:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And thosez that died
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
in the plague
maggephah (Hebrew #4046)
a pestilence; by analogy, defeat
KJV usage: (X be) plague(-d), slaughter, stroke.
Pronounce: mag-gay-faw'
Origin: from 5062
were twenty
`esriym (Hebrew #6242)
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
KJV usage: (six-)score, twenty(-ieth).
Pronounce: es-reem'
Origin: from 6235
and four
'arba` (Hebrew #702)
from 7251; four
KJV usage: four.
Pronounce: ar-bah'
Origin: masculine oarbaah {ar-baw-aw'}
thousand
'eleph (Hebrew #505)
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
KJV usage: thousand.
Pronounce: eh'-lef
Origin: prop, the same as 504
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Deut. 4:3• 3Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you. (Deut. 4:3)
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1 Cor. 10:8• 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (1 Cor. 10:8)

Cross References

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St. Paul reckons only 23,000:
Moses includes in the 24,000 he names, the 1,000 men who were slain in consequence of the judicial examination, (ver. 4,) as well as the 23,000 who died of the plague; while St. Paul only refers to the latter.
Num. 25:4‑5• 4And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
 5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor. (Num. 25:4‑5)
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Num. 16:49‑50• 49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
 50And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed. (Num. 16:49‑50)
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Deut. 4:3‑4• 3Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
 4But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day. (Deut. 4:3‑4)
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1 Cor. 10:8• 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (1 Cor. 10:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

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