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1 Now I would not have you ignorant, 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 were all baptized to 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 of a 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 However with most of them, God was not well 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 were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
7 Neither 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 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
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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 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
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We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.
10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished 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 all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have 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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