18 And (A)they tested God in their heart
By asking for the food of their fancy.

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18 They willfully put God to the test(A)
    by demanding the food they craved.(B)

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16 (A)“You shall not [a]tempt the Lord your God (B)as you [b]tempted Him in Massah.

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  1. Deuteronomy 6:16 test
  2. Deuteronomy 6:16 tested

16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test(A) as you did at Massah.

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Now the (A)mixed multitude who were among them [a]yielded to (B)intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: (C)“Who will give us meat to eat?

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  1. Numbers 11:4 Lit. lusted intensely

Quail From the Lord

The rabble with them began to crave other food,(A) and again the Israelites started wailing(B) and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

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nor let us [a]tempt Christ, as (A)some of them also tempted, and (B)were destroyed by serpents;

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:9 test

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

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

14 (A)But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.
15 (B)And He gave them their request,
But (C)sent leanness into their soul.

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14 In the desert(A) they gave in to their craving;
    in the wilderness(B) they put God to the test.(C)
15 So he gave them(D) what they asked for,
    but sent a wasting disease(E) among them.

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You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and [a]war. [b]Yet you do not have because you do not ask. (A)You ask and do not receive, (B)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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  1. James 4:2 battle
  2. James 4:2 NU, M omit Yet

You desire but do not have, so you kill.(A) You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,(B) because you ask with wrong motives,(C) that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

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Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as (A)they also lusted.

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Now these things occurred as examples(A) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.

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When (A)your fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though they (B)saw My work.

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where your ancestors tested(A) me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

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Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel (A)complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. And the children of Israel said to them, (B)“Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, (C)when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

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In the desert the whole community grumbled(A) against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt!(B) There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food(C) we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”(D)

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