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

⁶ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. ⁷ For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines^[a] and earthquakes in various places:^(A)

³ and all ate the same spiritual food,^{(A) 4} and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.^{(B) 5} Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.^(C)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.^{(D) 7} Do not become idolaters as some of them did, as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.”^{(E) 8} We must not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.^{(F) 9} We must not put Christ^[a] to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.^{(G) 10} And do not complain, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.^(H)

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

²⁹ At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock.^{(A) 30} Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.^(B)

Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death

³⁵ That very night the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.^(A)

¹⁵ So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people died, from Dan to Beer-sheba.^(A)