They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat {was} yet in their mouths,

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. {lusted...: Heb. lusted a lust}

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

{When} he is about to fill his belly, {God} shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain {it} upon him while he is eating.

And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat {was} yet in their mouths,

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. {lusted...: Heb. lusted a lust}

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. {pressed: or, rushed}

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.