Numbers 16:49
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
Numbers 16:49 in other translations
| BSB | But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah. |
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| WEB | Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, in addition to those who died about the matter of Korah. |
| ASV | Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah. |
| YLT | and those who die by the plague are fourteen thousand and seven hundred, apart from those who die for the matter of Korah; |
| DARBY | Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides them that had died because of the matter of Korah. |
| BBE | Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done. |
| Webster | Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah. |
What does Numbers 16:49 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 16:41-50
The gaping earth was scarcely closed, before the same sins are again committed, and all these warnings slighted. They called the rebels the people of the Lord; and find fault with Divine justice. The obstinacy of Israel notwithstanding the terrors of God's law, as given on mount Sinai, and the terrors of his judgments, shows how necessary the grace of God is to change men's hearts and lives. Love will do what fear…
Numbers 16:49 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 16:49
- Numbers 16:32-35
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also. And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
- Numbers 25:9
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
- Hebrews 10:28-29
He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
- Hebrews 12:25
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
- 1 Chronicles 21:14
So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
- Hebrews 2:1-3
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
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Context
- Numbers 16:48
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
- Numbers 16:49
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
- Numbers 16:50
And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
Numbers 16:49 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y los que murieron en aquella mortandad fueron catorce mil y setecientos, sin los muertos por el negocio de Coré. |
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| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und es waren derer, die an der Plage starben, 14700, außer denen, die Korahs wegen gestorben waren. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Fuerunt autem qui percussi sunt, quatuordecim millia hominum, et septingenti, absque his qui perierant in seditione Core. |