Our Jewish ancestors all experienced God’s power, but almost all of them died in the desert because they sinned against him.

1 Corinthians 10:1-5

10 My fellow believers, I want to remind you about our(exc) Jewish ancestors. They were all under the cloud by which God miraculously led them and protected them when they left Egypt with Moses. All those ancestors crossed the Red Sea after God miraculously made the water separate so that they could walk through it. 2 God caused all of them to begin to live under the authority of [MTY] Moses when they walked under that cloud and walked through the Red Sea. 3 All those ancestors of ours ate the same food that God miraculously provided. 4 They all drank water that God miraculously provided. That is, they all drank water that God miraculously made come out of the rock. That rock was a symbol of [MET] Christ, who went with them. So we conclude that God helped all of those people in many ways. 5 However, we also conclude that God was angry [LIT] with most of those people because they sinned against him. He caused almost all of them to die, and as a result their bodies were scattered in the desert.