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1 I want you to know, brethren, 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 supernatural food
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They all ate the same spiritual food
4 and all drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the supernatural Rock which 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.
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