Numbers 16:49
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New International Version (©2011)
But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But 14,700 people died in that plague, in addition to those who had died in the affair involving Korah.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But those who died by the plague were 14,700, besides those who died on account of Korah.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Those who died due to the plague numbered 14,700, not counting those who died due to the matter with Korah.

NET Bible (©2006)
Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Still, 14,700 died from the plague in addition to those who had died because of Korah.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died in the incident of Korah.

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

American Standard Version
Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.

Darby Bible Translation
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides them that had died because of the matter of Korah.

English Revised Version
Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

World English Bible
Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.

Young's Literal Translation
and those who die by the plague are fourteen thousand and seven hundred, apart from those who die for the matter of Korah;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 cannot. Moses and Aaron interceded with God for mercy, knowing how great the provocation was. Aaron went, and burned incense between the living and the dead, not to purify the air, but to pacify an offended God. As one tender of the life of every Israelite, Aaron made all possible speed. We must render good for evil. Observe especially, that Aaron was a type of Christ. There is an infection of sin in the world, which only the cross and intercession of Jesus Christ can stay and remove. He enters the defiled and dying camp. He stands between the dead and the living; between the eternal Judge and the souls under condemnation. We must have redemption through His blood, even the remission of sins. We admire the ready devotion of Aaron: shall we not bless and praise the unspeakable grace and love which filled the Saviour's heart, when he placed himself in our stead, and bought us with his life? Greatly indeed hath God commended his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, Ro 5:8.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 49. - Fourteen thousand and seven hundred. A very large number to have died in the course of a few minutes, as the narrative seems to imply. The plague was undoubtedly of a supernatural character, and cannot be considered as a pestilence or other natural visitation. Beside them that died about the matter of Korah. These were

(1) the two hundred and fifty men who offered incense,

(2) Dathan and Abiram, and their families,

(3) probably Korah himself,

(4) possibly some other partisans of Korah (see on verse 32), making in all about 300 souls.

Thus we get the round number of 15,000 as the total of those that perished on this occasion.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred,.... 14,700. Thus what they were threatened with, that their carcasses should fall in the wilderness, Numbers 14:29, was more and more fulfilled:

beside them that died about the matter of Korah; these are not taken into the number here, even the two hundred fifty men of Korah's company, and the families of Dathan and Abiram, Numbers 16:32; how many they were is not certain, but they were but few in comparison of these.

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Murmuring and Plague
…48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. 49Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah. 50And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.

1 Corinthians 10:10 And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed by the destroying angel.
Numbers 14:37 these men who were responsible for spreading the bad report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.
Numbers 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.
Numbers 16:35 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
Numbers 16:48 He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.
Numbers 16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, for the plague had stopped.
Numbers 25:9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.