1. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,
2. and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
3. All ate the same spiritual food,
4. and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was the Christ.
5. Yet God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert.
6. These things happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil things, as they did.
7. And do not become idolaters, as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.”
8. Let us not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell within a single day.