22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

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22 not one of those who saw my glory and the signs(A) I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times(B)

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These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

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Ten times(A) now you have reproached(B) me;
    shamelessly you attack me.

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17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

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17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?(A) 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest(B) if not to those who disobeyed?(C)

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26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

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26 So he swore(A) to them with uplifted hand
    that he would make them fall in the wilderness,(B)

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And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

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yet your father has cheated(A) me by changing my wages(B) ten times.(C) However, God has not allowed him to harm me.(D)

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31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God,

33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

34 And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.

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31 and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried(A) you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”(B)

32 In spite of this,(C) you did not trust(D) in the Lord your God, 33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day,(E) to search(F) out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

34 When the Lord heard(G) what you said, he was angry(H) and solemnly swore:(I) 35 “No one from this evil generation shall see the good land(J) I swore to give your ancestors,

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32 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

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The Golden Calf

32 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain,(A) they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before(B) us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 32:1 Or a god; also in verses 23 and 31

Wherefore 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?

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So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water(A) to drink.”(B)

Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”(C)

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(A)

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Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

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We should not test Christ,[a](A) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Some manuscripts test the Lord

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.(A)

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Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’[a](A)

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  1. Matthew 4:7 Deut. 6:16

15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

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15 But now we call the arrogant(A) blessed. Certainly evildoers(B) prosper,(C) and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’”

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