Contradiction claim
How many died in the plague at Baal-peor?
Numbers reports twenty-four thousand dead in the plague. Paul, recalling the wilderness generation, writes that twenty-three thousand fell in one day. The figures differ by one thousand, and Paul adds the phrase "in one day".
Numerical discrepancyReviewedSeverity: moderateClassification confidence: moderatePossible textual issue
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How to read this record
This record states that a conflict has been claimed. The classification is CodexTrace’s editorial assessment of what kind of question this is, not a verdict on whether the passages can be read together. Primary text comes first; interpretation and analysis follow it. Methodology
Passages side by side
TextThe primary text, as seeded. Nothing here is summarised or paraphrased.
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Why they appear to conflict
AnalysisEach side states a proposition attributable to its passages. A claim is not assumed to have exactly two sides.
Numbers
Twenty-four thousand died in the plague.
Twenty-four thousand
Numbers 25:9