1 For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea;

2 And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

3 And they all took the same holy food;

4 And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.

5 But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

6 Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

7 Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

8 Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

9 And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

10 And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.