1 Corinthians 10:8 meaning and explanation

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

1 Corinthians 10:8, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul warns the Corinthian believers, mostly Gentiles proud of their freedom, by recalling Israel's wilderness years. Though Israel had been baptized into Moses and fed and watered by God, many fell into sexual immorality and died in a single day.

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