1 Corinthians 10:6
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Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

Numbers 11:4
For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Numbers 11:34
And that place was called, The graves of lust: for there they buried the people that had lusted. And departing from the graves of lust, they came unto Haseroth, and abode there.

Psalm 106:14
And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

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Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

these.

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Zephaniah 3:6,7 I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I have made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any inhabitant. . . .

Hebrews 4:11 Let us hasten therefore to enter into that rest: lest any man fall into the same example of unbelief.

2 Peter 2:6 And reducing the cities of the Sodomites and of the Gomorrhites into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly,

Jude 1:7 As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

examples.

Romans 5:14 But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.

Hebrews 9:24 For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

1 Peter 3:21 Whereunto baptism, being of the like form, now saveth you also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the examination of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

lust.

Numbers 11:4,31-34 For a mixt multitude of people, that came up with them, burned with desire, sitting and weeping, the children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall give us flesh to eat? . . .

Psalm 78:27-31 And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. . . .

Psalm 106:14,15 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water. . . .

Context
Warnings from Israel's Past
5But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert. 6Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted. 7Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.…
Lexicon
These things
Ταῦτα (Tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3778: This; he, she, it.

took place
ἐγενήθησαν (egenēthēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

as examples
τύποι (typoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 5179: From tupto; a die, i.e. a stamp or scar; by analogy, a shape, i.e. A statue, style or resemblance; specially, a sampler, i.e. A model or instance.

to keep
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

us
ἡμᾶς (hēmas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

from craving
ἐπιθυμητὰς (epithymētas)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 1938: An eager desirer of. From epithumeo; a craver.

evil things
κακῶν (kakōn)
Adjective - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 2556: Bad, evil, in the widest sense. Apparently a primary word; worthless, i.e. depraved, or injurious.

as
καθὼς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

they
κἀκεῖνοι (kakeinoi)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 2548: And he, she, it, and that. From kai and ekeinos; likewise that.

[did].
ἐπεθύμησαν (epethymēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1937: To long for, covet, lust after, set the heart upon. From epi and thumos; to set the heart upon, i.e. Long for.


Additional Translations
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

Now these things have become types to us, for us not to be desirers of evil things, as they also desired.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

And in this they became a warning to us, to teach us not to be eager, as they were eager, in pursuit of what is evil.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.
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