⁴⁸ He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped.^(A)

⁶ You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. ⁷ Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.^(A) There will be famines^(B) and earthquakes in various places.

³ They all ate the same spiritual food^{(A) 4} and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock^(B) that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. ⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.^(C)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples^(D) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. ⁷ Do not be idolaters,^(E) 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](F) 8} We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.^{(G) 9} We should not test Christ,^[b](H) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.^{(I) 10} And do not grumble, as some of them did^(J)—and were killed^(K) by the destroying angel.^(L)