1. For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,
2. and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
3. and all ate the same spiritual food,
4. and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
5. But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.
6. These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.
7. So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”
8. And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.
9. And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.
10. And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
11. These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.