⁶ Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we should not be desirers of evil things, just as those also desired them, ⁷ and not become idolaters, as some of them did, just as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play,”^{[a] 8} nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day,