He struck of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
z Antiqu. l. 6. c. 1. sect. 4. a Antiqu. l. 6. c. 1. sect. 3. b Antiqu. l. 6. c. 1. sect. 3. c T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 35. 2. T. Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 20. 2. Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 5. fol. 186. 2. d Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 36. col. 370. e So Noldius, No. 779. f Pausan. Achaica, sive, l. 7. p. 435.