1. Brothers, I want you to know what happened to our ancestors who followed Moses. They were all under the cloud, and they all went through the sea.
2. They were all baptized as followers of Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
3. They all ate the same spiritual food.
4. And they all drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from that spiritual rock that was with them. That rock was Christ.
5. But God was not pleased with most of them. They died in the desert.
6. And these things that happened are examples for us. They should stop us from wanting evil things as those people did.
7. Do not worship idols, as some of them did. It is written in the Scriptures: “The people sat down to eat and drink. Then they got up and had wild parties.”
8. We should not take part in sexual sin, as some of them did. In one day 23,000 of them died because of their sins.
9. We should not test the Lord as some of them did. They were killed by snakes.
10. And do not complain as some of them did. They were killed by the angel that destroys.
11. The things that happened to those people are examples. And they were written down to be warnings for us. For we live in a time when all these things of the past have reached their goal.