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or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.”[a] And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.

Nor should we put Christ[b] to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:7 Exod 32:6.
  2. 10:9 Some manuscripts read the Lord.

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