a smell/molecules can cling - ask anyone the next day who has been in a smokey environment. We know now that 'space' is not a 'pure' vacuum, so what is it that produces this smell?
I find it rather interesting.

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."