For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.

2 And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea:

3 And did all eat the same spiritual food:

4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)

5 But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

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

7 Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.

10 Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

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.