1. For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
2. and all were immersed into Mosheh in the cloud and in the sea,
3. and all ate the same spiritual food,
4. and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed, and the Rock was Messiah.
5. However, with most of them Elohim was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the wilderness.
6. And these became examples for us, so that we should not lust after evil, as those indeed lusted.
7. And do not become idolaters as some of them, as it has been written, “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play.”
8. Neither should we commit whoring, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell,
9. neither let us try Messiah, as some of them also tried, and were destroyed by serpents,
10. neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
11. And all these came upon them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come,
12. so that he who thinks he stands, let him take heed lest he fall.
13. No trial has overtaken you except such as is common to man, and Elohim is trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial shall also make the way of escape, enabling you to bear it.
14. Therefore, my beloved ones, flee from idolatry.