¹I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that all our ancestors ⸤who left Egypt⸥ were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea. ²They were all united with Moses by baptism in the cloud and in the sea. ³All of them ate the same spiritual food, ⁴and all of them drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them, and that rock was Christ. ⁵Yet, God was not pleased with most of them, so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.

⁶These things have become examples for us so that we won’t desire what is evil, as they did. ⁷So don’t worship false gods as some of them did, as Scripture says, “The people sat down to a feast which turned into an orgy.” ⁸We shouldn’t sin sexually as some of them did. Twenty-three thousand of them died on one day. ⁹We shouldn’t put the Lord^ato the test as some of them did. They were killed by snakes. ¹⁰Don’t complain as some of them did. The angel of death destroyed them. ¹¹These things happened to make them an example for others. These things were written down as a warning for us who are living in the closing days of history.

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Footnotes

a 10:9 Some manuscripts and translations; other manuscripts and translations “Christ.”