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Numbers 25:1 (WEB)
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

Fathers and councils · 3

Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 6
“And of course it is a sufficient one, that so vast a number—(the number) of 24,000—of the People, when they committed fornication with the daughters of Madian, fell in one plague.” — editor's note: See Num. xxv. 1–9; 1 Cor. x. 8.
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Tertullian, Scorpiace Chapter 3
“Israel having, as we are told in Numbers, turned aside at Sethim, the people go to the daughters of Moab to gratify their lust: they are allured to the idols, so that they committed whoredom with the…” — editor's note: Num. xxv. 1.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor II.10Book II
“Remember the four and twenty thousand that were rejected for fornication.” — editor's note: [1 Cor. x. 8; Num. xxv. 1–9. Clement says twenty-four thousand, with the Old Testament, but St. Paul says twenty-three thousand; on which, ad locum, see…
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