15 For by now I could have thrust my hand out that I might strike you and your people with pestilence and that you might be effaced from the earth.+

12 Let me strike them with pestilence and drive them away, and let me make you a nation greater and mightier than they are.”+

46 After that Moses said to Aaron: “Take the fire holder and put fire from upon the altar in it+ and put on incense and go to the assembly in a hurry and make atonement for them,+ because the indignation has gone out from the face of Jehovah.+ The plague has started!”

9 And those who died from the scourge amounted to twenty-four thousand.+