³⁷ these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report^(A) about the land were struck down and died of a plague^(B) before the Lord.

⁴⁸ He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.^{(A) 49} But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.^{(B) 50} Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, for the plague had stopped.^[a]

¹⁶ “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice^(A) and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident,^(B) so that a plague^(C) struck the Lord’s people.