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"?

Thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. Hosea 9:1

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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