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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]

Nor must we do bad things to see whether the Lord will punish us. Some of our ancestors did that, and God sent snakes to destroy them.[c]

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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.
  3. 10:9 See Numbers 21:4-7.