New Revised Standard Version
But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague.

Contemporary English Version
But before the meat could be eaten, the LORD became angry and sent a deadly disease through the camp.

New American Bible
But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it could be chewed, the LORD’s wrath flared up against the people, and the LORD struck them with a very great plague.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.

As yet the flesh was between their teeth, neither had that kind of meat failed: when behold the wrath of the Lord being provoked against the people, struck them with an exceeding great plague.

and while

Psalm 78:30,31 they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth: . . .

Psalm 106:14,15 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water. . . .

smote

Numbers 16:49 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.

Numbers 25:9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Deuteronomy 28:27 The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that thou canst not be healed.