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Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,
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all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
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all ate the same spiritual food,
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and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
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But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
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Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
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And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
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Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;
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nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;