Remember our sin at Peor, when the Lord punished his own people with an epidemic? We are still suffering because of that. Wasn't that sin enough?
All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.
We must not be guilty of sexual immorality, as some of them were—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead.