New Revised Standard Version
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand persons fell in Israel.

Contemporary English Version
So the LORD sent a horrible disease on Israel, and 70,000 Israelites died.

New American Bible
Therefore the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand Israelites died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

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Numbers 16:46-49 Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth. . . .

2 Samuel 24:15 And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee seventy thousand men.

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Exodus 12:20 You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.

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

1 Samuel 6:19 But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the ark of the Lord, and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the common people. And the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

2 Kings 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that an angel of the Lord came, and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he arose early in the morning, he saw all the bodies of the dead.