Do not be (A)idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “(B)The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to (C)play.” Nor are we to commit sexual immorality, as (D)some of them [a]did, and (E)twenty-three thousand fell in one day. Nor are we to put the Lord to the test, as (F)some of them [b]did, and were killed by the snakes.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:8 Lit committed sexual immorality
  2. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Lit made trial

Do not be idolaters,(A) as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”[a](B) We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.(C) We should not test Christ,[b](D) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 10:7 Exodus 32:6
  2. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Some manuscripts test the Lord