So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their th