10For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all went through the sea, ²and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, ³and all ate the same spiritual food, ⁴and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. ⁵But God was not pleased with the majority of them, for they were struck down in the desert.

⁶Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we should not be desirers of evil things, just as those also desired them, ⁷and not become idolaters, as some of them did, just as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play,”^a ⁸nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day, ⁹nor put Christ to the test, as some of them tested him, and were destroyed by snakes, ¹⁰nor grumble, just as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer. ¹¹Now these things happened to those people as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

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Footnotes

aA quotation from Exod 32:6