So the people complained to Moses, “Give us water to drink.”

“Why are you complaining to me?” Moses replied to them. “Why are you testing(A) the Lord?”

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He named the place Massah[a] and Meribah[b](A) because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

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Footnotes

  1. 17:7 = Testing
  2. 17:7 = Quarreling

14 They were seized with craving in the wilderness
and tested God in the desert.(A)

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Nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, since they were struck down in the wilderness.(A)

Now these things took place as examples for us, so that we will not desire(B) evil things as they did.[a](C) Don’t become idolaters(D) as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.[b][c](E) Let us not commit sexual immorality(F) as some of them did,[d] and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.(G) Let us not test Christ as some of them did[e] and were destroyed by snakes.(H) 10 And don’t grumble(I) as some of them did,[f](J) and were killed by the destroyer.[g](K)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:6 Lit they desired
  2. 10:7 Or to dance
  3. 10:7 Ex 32:6
  4. 10:8 Lit them committed sexual immorality
  5. 10:9 Lit them tested
  6. 10:10 Lit them grumbled
  7. 10:10 Or the destroying angel

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