1 Corinthians 10:8
Good News Translation
We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.

New Revised Standard Version
We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

Contemporary English Version
Some of those people did shameful things, and in a single day about 23,000 died. Don't do shameful things as they did.

New American Bible
Let us not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell within a single day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

1 Corinthians 6:9,18 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: . . .

Numbers 25:1-9 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, . . .

Psalm 106:29 And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

Revelation 2:14 But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication.

Context
Warnings from Israel's Past
7Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.…
Cross References
Numbers 25:1
And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 25:9
And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

Matthew 5:32
But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

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