Numbers 25:9
Good News Translation
but it had already killed twenty-four thousand people.

New Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless those that died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Contemporary English Version
but 24,000 Israelites had already died.

New American Bible
but the dead from the plague were twenty-four thousand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Context
The Zeal of Phinehas
8Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel. 9And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.10And the Lord said to Moses:…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Numbers 14:37
Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

Numbers 16:48
And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.

Numbers 16:49
And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.

Numbers 25:10
And the Lord said to Moses:

Numbers 26:1
After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:

Numbers 31:16
Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

Numbers 25:8
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