Numbers 25:9

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. The apostle says 23,000 Co1 10:8. Moses includes those that were hanged against the sun, in the time of the plague, as well as those…

Twenty and four thousand - Paul 1Co 10:8 says “three and twenty thousand,” following probably the Jewish tradition which deducted one thousand as the number slain by the hands of their brethren.

Here is a remarkable contest between wickedness and righteousness, which shall be most bold and resolute; and righteousness carries the day, as no doubt it will at last.

I. Never was vice more daring…

twenty and four thousand S. Paul uses the narrative as a warning to Christians (1Co 10:8). Either by a slip of memory or owing to a variant reading he gives the number as threeand twenty thousand.