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)

³⁵ That night the angel of the Lord^(A) went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!^(B)

²⁹ At midnight^(A) the Lord^(B) struck down all the firstborn^(C) in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock^(D) as well. ³⁰ Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing^(E) in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

¹⁵ So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.^(A)