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.
न्यायियों के हाथ मरनेवाले प्रधानों की संख्या हज़ार के आस - पास रही होगी जिसकी वजह से मरनेवालों की कुल गिनती 24,000 हुई ।