For today’s post we will tackle the question the Skeptic Annotated Bible asked: How many did God kill for committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab?
Here are the two answers which the skeptic believes shows a Bible contradiction:
23,000
“Nor are we to commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.” (1 Corinthians 10:8)
24,000.
“But those who died from the plague were twenty-four thousand in number.” (Numbers 25:9)
(All Scriptural quotation comes from the New American Standard Bible)
Here’s a closer look at whether or not there is a contradiction:
The Domain for Truth 