Catholic Public Domain Version
"And there were slain twenty-four thousand men. "
— Numbers 25:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.”
“And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand. ”
“Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.”
“Those that died in the plague were 24,000.”
“And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.”
“But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.”
“And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.”
And behold, one of the sons of Israel entered, in the sight of his brothers, to a prostitute of Midian, within view of Moses and of all the crowd of the sons of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle.
And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, had seen it, he rose up from the midst of the multitude, and, seizing a dagger,
he entered after the Israelite man, into the brothel, and he pierced both of them at the same time, specifically, the man and the woman at the location of their genitals. And the scourge ceased from among the sons of Israel.
And there were slain twenty-four thousand men.
And the Lord said to Moses:
“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has averted my wrath from the sons of Israel. For he was moved against them by my zeal, so that I myself, in my zeal, might not wipe away the sons of Israel.
Because of this, say to him: Behold, I give to him the peace of my covenant.