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THE MESSAGE
1 Corinthians 10:8
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We should not commit sexual sins as some of them did. In one day 23,000 of them died because of their sin.
We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
Nether let vs comit fornicacion as some of them committed fornicacion and were destroyed in one daye .xxiii. thousande.
Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
Let us stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead.Numbers 25:1,9; Psalm 106:29; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 2:14;">[xr]
Nor are we to commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
We must not take part in sexual sins, as some of them did. In one day twenty-three thousand of them died because of their sins.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and 23,000 fell in one day.
Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead.
Nether do we fornycacioun, as summe of hem diden fornicacioun, and thre and twenti thousyndis weren deed in o dai.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Some of those people did shameful things, and in a single day about twenty-three thousand of them died. Don't do shameful things as they did.
We must not indulge in [nor tolerate] sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand [suddenly] fell [dead] in a single day!
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
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.
And let us not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, with the consequence that 23,000 died in a single day.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
nor commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell, in one day, twenty and three thousand;
Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them committed; and there fell in one day twenty and three thousand.
Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.
And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.
We must not do sex sins as some of them did. In one day 23,000 died.
We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.
Neither should we commit adultery, as some of them committed, for in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.
Neither let us commit fornication, as, some of them, committed fornication, and there fell, in one day, three and twenty thousand;
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one daye three and thirtie thousande.
We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.
Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day,
Nor should we commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty three thousand fell in one day.
neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;
Nether let vs commytte whordome, as some of them comytted whordome, and fell in one daye thre & twenty thousande.
neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.
And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.
Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;
We should not commit the same sexual sins as they did during their parties. Because of this, twenty-three thousand �people died in one day.
Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Nor let us act in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:18, Numbers 25:1-9, Psalms 106:29, Revelation 2:14
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:7 - thing Exodus 32:28 - there fell Numbers 25:9 - General Joshua 22:17 - from which Proverbs 7:26 - General Proverbs 23:28 - increaseth 1 Corinthians 5:11 - or an idolater Ephesians 5:3 - fornication Hebrews 12:16 - any fornicator
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Neither let us commit fornication,.... To which the Corinthians were much addicted: hence the apostle elsewhere, in this epistle, makes use of arguments, to dissuade from it, as he does here, they judging it to be no evil:
as some of them committed; i.e. fornication; as they did at Shittim, with the daughters of Moab, Numbers 25:1 which was a stratagem of Balaam's, and the advice he gave to Balak king of Moab, to draw them into that sin, which made way for their commission of idolatry, which they committed by eating the sacrifices of their gods, and bowing down unto them; particularly they joined themselves to Baal Peor, the same with Priapus, one part of whose religious rites lay in acts of uncleanness, and this brought the divine displeasure on them:
and fell in one day three and twenty thousand; in Numbers 25:9 the number said to be "twenty and four thousand": and so say all the three Targums on the place w, and both the Talmuds x and others y; on the other hand, all the Greek copies of this epistle, and the Oriental versions, agree in the number of twenty and three thousand; so that it does not appear to be any mistake of copies, in either Testament. To reconcile this matter, or at least to abate the difficulties of it, let the following things be observed; as that the apostle does not write as an historian, and so not with that exactness as Moses did; besides, he does not say that there fell "only" three and twenty thousand, and this beings lesser number than is contained in his, and so a certain truth; moreover, Moses and the apostle use different words in their account; Moses says there died so many, including the heads of the people that were hanged up against the sun, and all that perished by the sword; the apostle says, that there fell such a number, referring only to the latter, who only could be properly said to fall, and not those that were hanged up: now the heads of the people that suffered the first kind of death, might, as is very probable, be a thousand; and they that died in the other way, three and twenty thousand, which make the sums to agree, and both are expressed by Moses, under the general name of a plague or stroke; to all this, that the apostle uses a limiting clause, which Moses does not, and says that these three and twenty thousand fell in one day. So that it is very likely that the heads of the people, supposed to be a thousand, were hanged up in one day; and the three and twenty thousand that fell by the sword died the next, which the apostle only takes notice of. Hence the Jew z has no reason to charge the apostle with an error.
w Targum Onkelos, Jon. ben Uzziel & Jerusalem in Numb, xxv. 9. x T. Hieros Sota, fol. 21. 4. T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 106. 1. y Midrash Kohelet, fol. 68. 4. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 127. 3. z R. Isaac Chizzuk Emuna, par. 2. c. 36. p. 468.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Neither let us commit fornication ... - The case referred to here was that of the licentious contact with the daughters of Moab, referred to in Numbers 25:1-9.
And fell in one day - Were slain for their sin by the plague that prevailed.
Three and twenty thousand - The Hebrew text in Numbers 25:9, is twenty-four thousand. In order to reconcile these statements, it may be observed that perhaps 23,000 fell directly by the plague, and 1,000 were slain by Phinehas and his companions (Grotius); or it may be that the number was between 23,000 and 24,000, and it might be expressed in round numbers by either - Macknight. At all events, Paul has not exceeded the truth. There were at least 23,000 that fell, though there might have been more. The probable supposition is, that the 23,000 fell immediately by the hand of God in the plague, and the other thousand by the judges; and as Paul’s design was particularly to mention the proofs of the immediate divine displeasure, he refers only to those who fell by that, in illustration of his subject - There was a particular reason for this caution in respect to licentiousness:
(1) It was common among all idolaters; and Paul in cautioning them against idolatry, would naturally warn them of this danger.
(2) It was common at Corinth. It was the prevalent vice there. To “Corinthianize” was a term synonymous among the ancients with licentiousness.
(3) So common was this at Corinth, that, as we have seen (see the introduction), not less than 1,000 prostitutes were supported in a single temple there; and the city was visited by vast multitudes of foreigners, among other reasons on account of its facilities for this sin. Christians, therefore, were in a special manner exposed to it; and hence, the anxiety of the apostle to warn them against it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 10:8. Fell in one day three and twenty thousand. — In Numbers 25:9, the number Isaiah 24:0; and, allowing this to be the genuine reading, (and none of the Hebrew MSS. exhibit any various reading in the place,) Moses and the apostle may be thus reconciled: in Numbers 25:4, God commands Moses to take all the heads (the rulers) of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun; these possibly amounted to 1000, and those who fell by the plague were 23,000, so that the whole amounted to 24,000. Instead of εικοσιτρεις χιλιαδες, 23,000, two MSS., with the later Syriac and the Armenian, have εικοσιτεσσαρες χιλιαδες, 24,000; but this authority is too slender to establish a various reading, which recedes so much from the received text. I think the discordance may be best accounted for by supposing, as above, that Phineas and his companions might have slain 1000 men, who were heads of the people, and chief in this idolatry; and that the plague sent from the Lord destroyed 23,000 more; so an equal number to the whole tribe of Levi perished in one day, who were just 23,000. See Numbers 26:62; and see Lightfoot.
