Untitled article by J. M. A.

Untitled article

J. M. A.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 26, 1867

No. 22. Moses says 24,000 died by the plague. “And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.” Num. xxv, 9.

Paul puts the number at 23,000. “Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.” 1 Cor. x, 8.

An objection is offered on account of a discrepancy in the above figures; but when we compare the scriptures touching the case in question, all ground for such objections is removed.

While Paul, in the latter text, stated the number that fell in one day by the plague, Moses, in the former text, gave the whole number that came to their death in consequence of the sin referred to, embracing, not only the 23,000 that fell in one day, as stated, but also those that were slain by express command. Verse 5. “And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.” J. M. A.