The apostle to the Corinthians, counts three and twenty thousand. Probably the slaughter of the Judges made them both added together four and twenty thousand. Compare 1 Corinthians 10:8, with this verse and Numbers 25:4; as also with Deuteronomy 4:3
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Numbers 25:9
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.