Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as (A)they did.

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just as (A)Sodom and Gomorrah and (B)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and (C)pursued unnatural desire,[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:7 Greek different flesh

11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but (A)they were written down for our instruction, (B)on whom the end of the ages has come.

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Now the (A)rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also (B)wept again and said, (C)“Oh that we had meat to eat!

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if by (A)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, (B)making them an example of (C)what is going to happen to the ungodly;[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:6 Some manuscripts an example to those who were to be ungodly

11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so (A)that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

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(A)“I have cut off nations;
    their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
    (B)so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
    without a man, without an inhabitant.
(C)I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;
    (D)you will accept correction.
Then your[a] dwelling would not be cut off
    according to all that I have appointed against you.’[b]
But (E)all the more they were eager
    to make all their deeds corrupt.

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  1. Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her
  2. Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her

21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, (A)now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but (B)as an appeal to God for a good conscience, (C)through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places (A)made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God (B)on our behalf.

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14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not (A)like the transgression of Adam, (B)who was a type of (C)the one who was to come.

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Quail and a Plague

31 Then a (A)wind from the Lord sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits[a] above the ground. 32 And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten (B)homers.[b] And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 33 (C)While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and (D)the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague. 34 Therefore the name of that place was called (E)Kibroth-hattaavah,[c] because there they buried the people who had the craving.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 11:31 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  2. Numbers 11:32 A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  3. Numbers 11:34 Kibroth-hattaavah means graves of craving

14 But they had (A)a wanton craving in the wilderness,
    and (B)put God to the test in the desert;
15 he (C)gave them what they asked,
    but sent (D)a wasting disease among them.

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27 he rained meat on them like (A)dust,
    winged birds like (B)the sand of the seas;
28 he (C)let them fall in the midst of their camp,
    all around their dwellings.
29 And they (D)ate and were well filled,
    for he gave them what they (E)craved.
30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
    (F)while the food was still in their mouths,
31 the anger of God rose against them,
    and he killed (G)the strongest of them
    and laid low (H)the young men of Israel.

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