Numbers 25:2 (WEB)
for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Fathers and councils · 2
Tertullian
“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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Clement of Alexandria
“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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