10Now I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors^g were all under the cloud,^h all passed through the sea,ⁱ ²and all were baptized^j into Moses^k in the cloud and in the sea. ³They all ate the same spiritual food,^l ⁴and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock^m that followed them, and that rock was Christ.ⁿ ⁵Nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, since they were struck down in the wilderness.^o

⁶Now these things took place as examples for us, so that we will not desire^p evil things as they did.^A^q ⁷Don’t become idolaters^r as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.^B^C^s ⁸Let us not commit sexual immorality^t as some of them did,^D and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.^u ⁹Let us not test Christ as some of them did^E and were destroyed by snakes.^v ¹⁰And don’t grumble^w as some of them did,^F^x and were killed by the destroyer.^G^y ¹¹These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our instruction,^z on whom the ends of the ages^H^aa have come.^ab

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Footnotes

A they desired
BOr to dance
D them committed sexual immorality
E them tested
F them complained
GOr the destroying angel
HOr goals of the ages, or culmination of the ages

Cross references

g Ps 44:1; Ac 7:11
h Ex 13:21
i Ex 14:29
j Ac 22:16
k Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2
l Ex 16:31
m Ex 17:6; Nm 20:7–13
n Jn 4:14; 6:30–35
o Jd 5
p Mt 27:23; Jms 4:2
q Nm 11:4,33–34; Ps 78:18; 106:14
r Eph 5:5
C Ex 32:6
s Ex 32:6
t 1Co 6:18; Rv 2:14,20; 17:2; 18:3,9
u Nm 25:1–18; Ps 106:29
v Nm 21:6
w Jn 6:41; Jd 16
x Nm 16:41–50
y Ex 12:23; 2Sm 24:16; 1Ch 21:15; Ps 78:49
z Ps 102:18
aa Mk 13:7
ab Mk 10:30