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Numbers 16:49

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Now those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those who died about the matter of Korah.

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land of Israel’s former slavery, from which the Lord delivered them in the exodus. In this judgment after Korah’s rebellion, the deaths exclude those already killed in Egypt, emphasizing that the wilderness generation remained accountable to God despite that earlier deliverance.

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Numbers 16:49 mentions Egypt.

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