10 For I want you to know, brothers, [1] that our fathers were all under b the cloud, and all c passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and d all ate the same e spiritual food, 4 and f all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for g they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as h they did. 7 i Do not be idolaters j as some of them were; as it is written, k “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 8 l We must not indulge in sexual immorality m as some of them did, and n twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9 We must not put Christ [2] to the test, o as some of them did and p were destroyed by serpents, 10 nor grumble, q as some of them did and r were destroyed by s the Destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but t they were written down for our instruction, u on whom the end of the ages has come.
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