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1 For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
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For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea.
2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
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They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
3 and all ate the same spiritual food,
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They all ate the same spiritual food
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
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and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
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Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
7 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."
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Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”
8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
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We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
9 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.
10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
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And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.
11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
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These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.
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