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1 Corinthians 10:8

“Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.”

1 Corinthians 10:8 · direct translation from the Greek
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Explicit type · Numbers 25:1-9

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Paul gives as an example the immorality of Baal-peor. He says that 23,000 fell in one day; Numbers 25:9 says that 24,000 died in the plague.

The biblical author himself makes the connection, in these words:

ταῦτα δὲ τυπικῶς συνέβαινεν ἐκείνοις “these things happened to them as examples” (1 Corinthians 10:11)

1 Corinthians 10:8, word by word

let us commit sexual immoralityπορνεύωμενporneuōmen

commit sexual immorality

Commit sexual immorality: have sexual relations outside marriage; also, in a figurative sense, be unfaithful to God by joining in idolatry.

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twenty-three thousandεἴκοσιeikosi

twenty

Twenty.

Where else “eikosi” appears
twenty-three thousandτρεῖςtreis

three

Three.

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twenty-three thousandχιλιάδεςchiliades

thousand

A thousand, a group of a thousand.

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fellἔπεσανepesan

fail

To collapse, fail.

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in one dayμιᾷmiai

one

The quantity one, or a single one within a group.

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in one dayἡμέρᾳhēmerai

day

A span counted on the calendar: “on the third day,” “forty days.”

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Translation note

Numbers 25:1-9 gives the figure of twenty-four thousand.

The context

7Do not become idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

8 · This verse (above)

9Nor let us put the Messiah to the test, as some of them tested him, and they were being destroyed by the snakes.

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