Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

New American Standard Bible

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

King James Version

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Holman Bible

Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.

International Standard Version

Let's stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead.

A Conservative Version

Nor should we fornicate as some of them fornicated, and three thousand fell in one day.

American Standard Version

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Amplified

We must not indulge in [nor tolerate] sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand [suddenly] fell [dead] in a single day!

An Understandable Version

Neither should we commit sexual immorality as some of them did, [with] 23,000 people falling dead in one day. [Note: Num. 25:9 mentions 24,000 people slain, but that number could have included the additional people slain by the judges. See Num. 25:5].

Anderson New Testament

Nor let us be guilty of lewdness, as some of them were guilty, and fell, in one day, twenty-three thou sand.

Bible in Basic English

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

Common New Testament

We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Daniel Mace New Testament

neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.

Darby Translation

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Godbey New Testament

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day twenty-three thousand.

Goodspeed New Testament

Let us not practice immorality, like some of them, twenty-three thousand of whom fell dead in one day,

John Wesley New Testament

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Julia Smith Translation

Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.

King James 2000

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Lexham Expanded Bible

nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day,

Modern King James verseion

Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed fornication, and were destroyed - in one day, twenty three thousand.

Moffatt New Testament

Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did ??and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell.

Montgomery New Testament

Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them.

NET Bible

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

New Heart English Bible

Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

Noyes New Testament

Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them did, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Sawyer New Testament

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did and fell in one day twenty-three thousand.

The Emphasized Bible

Neither let us commit fornication, as, some of them, committed fornication, and there fell, in one day, three and twenty thousand;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them also committed, and in one day fell twenty-three thousand.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day.

Webster

Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Weymouth New Testament

Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead.

Williams New Testament

Let us stop practicing immorality, as some of them did, and on one day twenty-three thousand fell dead.

Worrell New Testament

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Worsley New Testament

Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Youngs Literal Translation

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
μηδέ 
mede 
neither, nor, not, nor yet, not once, no not, not so much as
Usage: 31

πορνεύω 
Porneuo 
Usage: 6

as
καθώς 
Kathos 
as, even as, according as, when, according to, how, as well as
Usage: 141

τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 373

of them

Usage: 0

πορνεύω 
Porneuo 
Usage: 6

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

πίπτω πέτω 
Pipto 
Usage: 56

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

one
εἷς 
heis 
one, a, other, some, not tr,
Usage: 188

day
ἡμέρα 
hemera 
day, daily 9, time, not tr,
Usage: 287

τρεῖς τρία 
Treis 
Usage: 51

and twenty
εἴκοσι 
Eikosi 
Usage: 11

Context Readings

A History Lesson From Israel

7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." 8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.



Cross References

Numbers 25:1-9

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Psalm 106:29

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

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