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Exodus 17:2

WEB

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?”

KJV

2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

BSB

2So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

FBV

2Some of them came and complained to Moses, saying, “Give us water to drink!” “Why are you complaining to me?” Moses asked. “Why are you trying to challenge the Lord?”

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Extra References

Psalms 78:18

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

Deuteronomy 6:16

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

1 Corinthians 10:9

9Let’s not test Christ,[+] as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

Psalms 78:41

41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Hebrews 3:9

9where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

Isaiah 7:12

12But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt the LORD.”

Matthew 4:7

7Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

Psalms 95:9

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

Acts 15:10

10Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Numbers 20:2-5

2There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD! 4Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals? 5Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”