^{1 Ref} 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 Ref} And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

^{3 Ref} And they all took the same holy food;

^{4 Ref} 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 Ref} But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

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

^{7 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

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