1 Corinthians 10:8
New International Version
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

New Living Translation
And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.

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

Berean Standard Bible
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

Berean Literal Bible
Neither should we commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

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

New King James Version
Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;

New American Standard Bible
Nor are we to commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

NASB 1995
Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

NASB 1977
Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Legacy Standard Bible
Nor let us act in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Amplified Bible
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!

Christian Standard Bible
Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And neither should we commit fornication as some of them fornicated and 23,000 fell in one 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.

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

English Revised Version
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We shouldn't sin sexually as some of them did. Twenty-three thousand of them died on one day.

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.

International Standard Version
Let's stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead.

Literal Standard Version
neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them committed whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

Majority Standard Bible
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

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

NET Bible
And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

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.

New Heart English Bible
Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Weymouth New Testament
Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead.

World English Bible
Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

Young's Literal Translation
neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Warnings from Israel's Past
7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.” 8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. 9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.…

Cross References
Numbers 25:1
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 25:9
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

Matthew 5:32
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.


Treasury of Scripture

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

1 Corinthians 6:9,18
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, …

Numbers 25:1-9
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab…

Psalm 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

Jump to Previous
Act Commit Committed Dead Desires End Fell Flesh Fornication Fornicators Immorality Lewdness Sexual Single Thousand Three Twenty Twenty-Three Way Whoredom
Jump to Next
Act Commit Committed Dead Desires End Fell Flesh Fornication Fornicators Immorality Lewdness Sexual Single Thousand Three Twenty Twenty-Three Way Whoredom
1 Corinthians 10
1. The sacraments of the Jews are types of ours;
7. and their punishments,
11. examples for us.
13. We must flee from idolatry.
21. We must not make the Lord's table the table of demons;
24. and in all things we must have regard for our brothers.














(8) And fell in one day three and twenty thousand.--In Numbers 25:9 the statement is that twenty-four thousand perished. Various and ingenious attempts have been made to reconcile these two accounts of the actual numbers. The explanation most in harmony with the character of the writer, and the utterly unessential nature of the point historically, is, I venture to think, that either the Apostle quoted from memory a fact of no great importance, or else that he referred for his figures to some copy of the LXX., in which the numbers might be specified as here.

Verse 8. - Commit fornication. This sin was not only an ordinary accompaniment of idolatry, but often a consecrated part of it, as in the case of the thousand hierodouloi, or female attendants, in the temple of Aphrodite on Acro-Corinthus. Three and twenty thousand. The number given in Numbers 25:9 is twenty-four thousand. We cannot give any account of the discrepancy, which is, however, quite unimportant.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
We should not commit sexual immorality,
πορνεύωμεν (porneuōmen)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 4203: To fornicate; met: I practice idolatry. From porne; to act the harlot, i.e. indulge unlawful lust, or practise idolatry.

as
καθώς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

some
τινες (tines)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

of them
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

[did],
ἐπόρνευσαν (eporneusan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4203: To fornicate; met: I practice idolatry. From porne; to act the harlot, i.e. indulge unlawful lust, or practise idolatry.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

in one
μιᾷ (mia)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

day
ἡμέρᾳ (hēmera)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.

twenty-three
εἰκοσι (eikosi)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1501: Twenty. Of uncertain affinity; a score.

thousand [of them]
χιλιάδες (chiliades)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5505: A thousand, the number one thousand. From chilioi; one thousand.

died.
ἔπεσαν (epesan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4098: A reduplicated and contracted form of peto; probably akin to petomai through the idea of alighting; to fall.


Links
1 Corinthians 10:8 NIV
1 Corinthians 10:8 NLT
1 Corinthians 10:8 ESV
1 Corinthians 10:8 NASB
1 Corinthians 10:8 KJV

1 Corinthians 10:8 BibleApps.com
1 Corinthians 10:8 Biblia Paralela
1 Corinthians 10:8 Chinese Bible
1 Corinthians 10:8 French Bible
1 Corinthians 10:8 Catholic Bible

NT Letters: 1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality as (1 Cor. 1C iC 1Cor i cor icor)
1 Corinthians 10:7
Top of Page
Top of Page