# a fixed time

This is the time God decided he would stop the plague.

# seventy thousand

"70,000" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

# from Dan to Beersheba

Here mentioning the city of Dan in the extreme north and the city Beersheba in the extreme south means the entire nation of Israel. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])