Holier Than Thou - Biblical Contradictions

How many Israelites died from the plague as a result of sexual immorality with the Moabites?

Numbers 25:8-9, "...Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000."

1 Corinthians 10:8, "We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did -- and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died."

According to Numbers, 24,000 Israelites died from a plague as a result of sexual immorality with the Moabites, however, according to 1 Corinthians, 23,000 died.

"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." (Ecclesiastes 7:3-4, KJV)

"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 8:15, KJV)