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We must learn from those things that happened to our ancestors. We must not want to do very bad things, like they did. Do not worship idols, as some of them did. The Bible says: ‘The people sat down to eat and to drink. After that, they got up from their meal and they danced.’[a]

Nor must we ever have sex in wrong ways. Some of our ancestors did that, and 23,000 of them died in one day as a result.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:7 The people danced to worship their false gods. See Exodus 32:6.
  2. 10:8 See Numbers 25:1-9.