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1 Corinthians 10:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 8 Neither let us practice sexual immorality,* as some of them committed sexual immorality,* only to fall, 23,000 of them in one day.+

1 Corinthians 10:8

The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
- 8 μηδὲ Neither πορνεύωμεν, may we be committing fornication, καθώς according as τινες some αὐτῶν of them ἐπόρνευσαν, committed fornication, καὶ and ἔπεσαν they fell μιᾷ to one ἡμέρᾳ day εἴκοσι twenty- τρεῖς three χιλιάδες. thousand.

1 Corinthians 10:8

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 8 Neither let us practice fornication, as some of them committed fornication,+ only to fall, twenty-three thousand [of them] in one day.+

1 Corinthians 10:8

The Bible in Living English
- 8 And let us not go into sexual debauchery, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

1 Corinthians 10:8

American Standard Version
- 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

1 Corinthians 10:8

The Emphasized Bible
- 8 Neither let us commit fornication As some of them committed fornication, And there fell in one day three and twenty thousand;

1 Corinthians 10:8

King James Version
- 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

1 Corinthians Study Notes—Chapter 10

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 10:8
  
  practice sexual immorality . . . committed sexual immorality: Just before the Israelites were to enter the Promised Land, Moabite women enticed thousands of them to commit sexual immorality and engage in the unclean worship of the Baal of Peor in Shittim on the Plains of Moab.—Nu 25:1-3, 9; see study note on 1Co 5:1.
  
  23,000 of them in one day: Paul is apparently referring to the event described at Nu 25:9 as a strong warning against getting involved in sexual immorality. (See study note on 1Co 5:9.) Because Nu 25:9 says that “those who died from the scourge amounted to 24,000,” some have pointed to a seeming contradiction between that account and the figure that Paul gives here. However, Paul clearly specifies that the number here listed died “in one day,” likely meaning that 23,000 were directly killed by the scourge. The “leaders” of those people died at the hands of the judges. (Nu 25:4, 5) It may be that the figure in Numbers is the total of all who died, including the leaders whom God held responsible for the sins of the people.