⁵¹ And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt^(A) by their divisions.^(B)

⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.^(A)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples^(B) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. ⁷ Do not be idolaters,^(C) as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”^{[a](D) 8} We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.^{(E) 9} We should not test Christ,^[b](F) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.^{(G) 10} And do not grumble, as some of them did^(H)—and were killed^(I) by the destroying angel.^(J)

¹⁶ Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^{(A) 17} And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^{(B) 18} And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest^(C) if not to those who disobeyed?^{(D) 19} So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.^(E)