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Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
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Verse 9. Slain. Hebrew adds, “in the plague,” or pestilence sent by God, (Psalms 105:29,) and in the punishments inflicted by the judges, “twenty and four thousand.” Bible.—The tribe of Simeon, lying to the south, had given way to greater disorders with the Madianites; ( Calmet.) so that they were found to have 37,100 fewer than when they were numbered before. Calmet. 2:13. See Calmet. 26:14. Bible.
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