Commentaries:
Scofield
fell in one day
Cf. Numbers 25:9. A discrepancy has been imagined. I Corinthians 10:8. gives the number of deaths in "one day"; Numbers 25:9, the total number of deaths "in the plague." Some discrepant statements concerning numbers are, however, found in the existing manuscripts of the Hebrew Scriptures. These are most naturally ascribed to the fact that the Hebrews used letters in the place of numerals. The letters for Koph to Tau express hundreds up to four hundred. Five certain Hebrew letters, written in a different form, carry hundreds up to nine hundred, while thousands are expressed by two dots over the proper unit letter: e.g. the letter Teth, used alone, stands for 9; with two dots it stands for nine thousand. Error in transcription of Hebrew numbers thus becomes easy, preservation of numerical accuracy difficult.
Other Scofield entries containing 1 Corinthians 10:8:
Exodus 25:1
Leviticus 11:2
Numbers 15:1
2 Kings 24:8
2 Kings 24:8
2 Chronicles 13:17
2 Chronicles 14:8
2 Chronicles 17:14
1 Corinthians 10:8
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