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, ⁹ nor put Christ to the test, as some of them tested him, and were destroyed by snakes,