1st Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 8 Holy Bible
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
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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.
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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
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Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
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Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
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neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.
