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Vulgate (Latin)   
tetigit autem tunc et iustos temptatio mortis et commotio in heremo facta est multitudinis sed non diu permansit ira

King James Variants

Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
Even the righteous were touched by the experience of death when large numbers of them were struck down by a plague in the wilderness. But the wrath did not endure for long.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
The experience of death touched also the righteous, and a plague came upon the multitude in the desert, but the wrath did not long continue.
Good News Translation®   
Death also came to the righteous nation, for an epidemic struck many of them while they were in the desert, but your anger did not last long.
Wycliffe Bible   
Forsooth (the) temptation of death, that is, punishment by death, touched then also just men, and moving (al)together of (the) multitude was made in (the) desert; but thine ire dwelled not long. [Then forsooth touched and rightwise men the temptation of death, and there is made of the multitude a stirring in (the) wilderness; but not long abode still thy wrath.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
The experience of death touched also the righteous, and a plague came upon the multitude in the desert, but the wrath did not long continue.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
The experience of death touched also the righteous, and a plague came upon the multitude in the desert, but the wrath did not long continue.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
The experience of death touched also the righteous, and a plague came upon the multitude in the desert, but the wrath did not long continue.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Those who did what is right were also touched by a test of death when many fell in the desert. But that wrath didn’t last long,
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
The trial of death touched even the righteous, and in the desert a plague struck the multitude; Yet not for long did the anger last.
Revised Standard Version   
The experience of death touched also the righteous, and a plague came upon the multitude in the desert, but the wrath did not long continue.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
The experience of death touched also the righteous, and a plague came upon the multitude in the desert, but the wrath did not long continue.