St. Paul reckons only 23,000:  Moses includes in the 24,000; he
   names, the 1,000; men who were slain in consequence of the
   judicial examination, (ver. 4,) as well as the 23,000; who died
   of the plague; while St. Paul only refers to the latter.

  4,5  16:49,50  De 4:3,4  1Co 10:8