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For 1I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all2under the cloud and all3passedthrough the sea ;
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and all were 4baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea ;
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and all5ate the samespiritualfood ;
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and all6drank the samespiritualdrink, for they were drinking from a spiritualrock which followed them; and the rock was aChrist.
5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased ; for 7they were laidlow in the wilderness.
6Nowthesethingshappened as 8examples for us, so that we would not craveevilthings as 9they alsocraved.
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Do not be 10idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, "11THE PEOPLESATDOWN TO EAT AND DRINK, AND STOOD UP TO 12PLAY."
8Nor let us actimmorally, as 13some of them bdid, and 14twenty-threethousandfell in oneday.
9Nor let us try the Lord, as 15some of them cdid, and were destroyed by the serpents.
10Nor16grumble, as some of them ddid, and 17were destroyed by the 18destroyer.
11Nowthesethingshappened to them as an 19example, and 20they were written for our instruction, upon whom21the ends of the ages have come.
12Therefore let him who 22thinks he standstakeheed that he does not fall.
13Notemptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man ; and 23God is faithful, who will not allow you to be 24temptedbeyondwhat you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escapealso, so that you will be able to endure it.