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Numbers 25:9

What does Numbers 25:9 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 25:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.8and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

v.9This passage

v.10And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Numbers 31:16

    Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:8

    Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

  • Numbers 14:37

    even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.

  • Numbers 16:49

    Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

  • Numbers 25:4

    And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.

  • Deuteronomy 4:3

    Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.

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