How many were killed for "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab"?

TRIV How many were killed for "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab"?

They ... put on haircloth, and put ashes upon their heads: and they rent their garments. 1 Machabees 3:47

Or 23,000, if you believe Paul.

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. Numbers 25:9

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Numbers 10:8

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