The figure given in Numbers evidently included “the head ones of the people ” executed by the judges and those executed directly by Jehovah. There might well have been a thousand of those head ones who died at the hands of the judges, bringing the number to 24,000.
भा. गणना पुस्तकात दिलेली संख्या ही, न्यायाधिशांनी ‘ लोकांच्या सर्व प्रमुखांना ’ ठार मारलेल्यांची आणि थेट यहोवाने ठार मारलेल्या लोकांची संख्या आहे.