But they had not yet satisfied their craving and were still eating,

when God became angry with them and killed their strongest men, the best young men of Israel.

They were filled with craving in the desert and put God to the test;

so he gave them what they asked for, but also sent a terrible disease among them.

The number of people who died was 14,700, not counting those who died in Korah's rebellion.

but it had already killed twenty-four thousand people.

The LORD will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.