1. For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and they all went across the sea.
2. And in Moses, they all were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea.
3. And they all ate of the same spiritual food.
4. And they all drank of the same spiritual drink. And so, they all were drinking of the spiritual rock seeking to obtain them; and that rock was Christ.
5. But with most of them, God was not well-pleased. For they were struck down in the desert.
6. Now these things were done as an example for us, so that we might not desire evil things, just as they desired.
7. And so, do not take part in idolatry, as some of them did, just as it was written: "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and then they rose up to amuse themselves."
8. And let us not commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and so twenty-three thousand fell on one day.
9. And let us not tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and so they perished by serpents.