1 Corinthians 10:9

⁵The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

⁶The LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

¹⁸They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

⁸don’t harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of the trial in the wilderness, ⁹where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years. ¹⁰Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’ ¹¹As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

²Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”

⁷He called the name of the place Massah,^[+] and Meribah,^[+] because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?”

¹⁶You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

⁵⁶Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,

²⁰“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ²¹Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

¹⁴but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

⁹when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.