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Let’s stop being idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to play.”[a] Let’s stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead. Let’s stop putting the Lord[b] to the test, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by snakes.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:7 Exod 32:6
  2. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Other mss. read Messiah

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