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22 After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”

He said, “Here I am.”

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22 After these events, God tested and proved Abraham and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here I am.

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Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

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Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law or not.

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Therefore 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 Yahweh?”

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Therefore, the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you find fault with me? Why do you tempt the Lord and try His patience?

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He called the name of the place Massah,[a] and Meribah,[b] because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

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Footnotes

  1. 17:7 Massah means testing.
  2. 17:7 Meribah means quarreling.

He called the place Massah [proof] and Meribah [contention] because of the faultfinding of the Israelites and because they tempted and tried the patience of the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us or not?

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

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16 You shall not tempt and try the Lord your God as you tempted and tried Him in Massah.(A)

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

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12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

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22 because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

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22 Because all those men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tested and proved Me these ten times and have not heeded My voice,

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

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18 And they tempted God in their hearts by asking for food according to their [selfish] desire and appetite.

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

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41 And time and again they turned back and tempted God, provoking and incensing the Holy One of Israel.

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

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56 Yet they tempted and provoked and rebelled against the Most High God and kept not His testimonies.

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

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When your fathers tried My patience and tested Me, proved Me, and saw My work [of judgment].

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

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14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted and tried to restrain God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.(A)

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