16 (A)Behold, they caused the sons of Israel, through the [a]counsel of (B)Balaam, to be unfaithful to the Lord in the matter of Peor, so that the plague took place among the congregation of the Lord!

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  1. Numbers 31:16 Lit word

16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice(A) and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident,(B) so that a plague(C) struck the Lord’s people.

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Nor are we to commit sexual immorality, as (A)some of them [a]did, and (B)twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:8 Lit committed sexual immorality

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.(A)

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14 But (A)I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the (B)teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a [a]stumbling block before the sons of Israel, (C)to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

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  1. Revelation 2:14 I.e., a temptation to sin

14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you:(A) There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam,(B) who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols(C) and committed sexual immorality.(D)

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