1 Corinthians 10:8
“Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.”
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1 Corinthians 10:8 Context
6Now these things were our examples, to the intent wee should not lust after euil things, as they also lusted. 7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play. 8Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand. 9Neither let vs tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 10Neither murmure ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
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Other Translations for 1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- King James Version
Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.
- Basic English Bible
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- Darby Bible
Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- Webster's Bible
Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead.
- Weymouth Bible
Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
- World English Bible
Nether do we fornycacioun, as summe of hem diden fornicacioun, and thre and twenti thousyndis weren deed in o dai.
- Wycliffe Bible
neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Corinthians 10:8
10:8 And fell in one day three and twenty thousand - Beside the princes who were afterwards hanged, and those whom the judges slew so that there died in all four and twenty thousand. #Num 25:1|,9.
People's Bible Notes for 1 Corinthians 10:8
1Co 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed. The fornication with the Midianites (Nu 25:1-10). Fornication was also one of the besetting sins of Corinth (1Co 5:1 16:3,18 7:2). And fell in one day three and twenty thousand. In Nu 25:9 it is stated that 24,000 lost their lives. Paul names 23,000 as the number who lost their lives by the plague. The number was no doubt between 23,000 and 24,000, and is stated in each place by a round sum, according to Jewish custom, Paul naming the smaller.