So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.
Parallel translations
- WEB They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
- KJV And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
- NKJV Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
- NASB So the next day they got up early and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to engage in lewd behavior.
- NLT The people got up early the next morning to sacrifice burnt offerings and peace offerings. After this, they celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.
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Quick answer
The people offer sacrifices and then feast and 'rise up to play,' descending into revelry. It shows how quickly false worship leads to moral corruption.
Overview
The worship that began with offerings degenerates into indulgence, the 'play' likely carrying connotations of immoral celebration. Paul cites this very verse in 1 Corinthians 10:7 as a warning to the church against idolatry. It illustrates that worship and conduct are inseparable: what we worship shapes how we live.
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- 1 Cor 10:7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”
- Num 25:2who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
- Acts 7:41–42At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.
- Exod 32:17–19When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.”
- Exod 24:4–5And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Rev 11:10And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.
- Judg 16:23–25Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
- Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
- Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
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