¹³ “‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled^(A) against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws^(B)—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths.^(C) So I said I would pour out my wrath^(D) on them and destroy^(E) them in the wilderness.^(F)

²¹ “‘But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws,^(A) of which I said, “The person who obeys them will live by them,” and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger^(B) against them in the wilderness.^(C)

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)