The rabble among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, ‘Who will feed us meat?
1 Corinthians 10:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Now these things took place as examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did. , Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now these things are examples (warnings and admonitions) for us not to desire or crave or covet or lust after evil and carnal things as they did. [Num. 11:4, 34.] American Standard Version (1901) Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Common English Bible These things were examples for us, so we won’t crave evil things like they did. Catholic Public Domain Version Now these things were done as an example for us, so that we might not desire evil things, just as they desired. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted. |
The rabble among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said, ‘Who will feed us meat?
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression. He is a type of the Coming One.
These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages , have come.
Let us, then, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.
For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that he might now appear in the presence of God for us.
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not as the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a good conscience towards God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;
Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.