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Now these things took place as prefigurative historical events, warning us not to set our hearts on evil things as they did. Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were — as the Tanakh puts it, “The people sat down to eat and drink, then got up to indulge in revelry.”[a] And let us not engage in sexual immorality, as some of them did, with the consequence that 23,000 died in a single day.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:7 Exodus 32:6

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