4 and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself.
5 But even then God was not pleased with most of them, and so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.
6 Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,
7 nor to worship idols, as some of them did. As the scripture says, “The people sat down to a feast which turned into an orgy of drinking and sex.”
8 We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.
9 We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did—and they were killed by snakes.
10 We must not complain, as some of them did—and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.