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,