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14 But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness
    and put God to the test in the desert;(A)

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We must not put Christ[a] to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.(A)

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  1. 10.9 Other ancient authorities read the Lord

Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.(A)

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The camp followers with them had a strong craving, and the Israelites also wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!(A)

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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?”(A)

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do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
    as on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors put me to the test,[a]
though they had seen my works 10     for forty years.
Therefore I was angry with that generation,
and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts,
    and they have not known my ways.’

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  1. 3.9 Other ancient authorities read tempted me, tested me

    Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
    as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,(A)
when your ancestors tested me
    and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.(B)

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40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and grieved him in the desert!(A)
41 They tested God again and again
    and provoked the Holy One of Israel.(B)

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30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
    while the food was still in their mouths,

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18 They tested God in their heart
    by demanding the food they craved.(A)
19 They spoke against God, saying,
    “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?(B)
20 Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out
    and torrents overflowed,
can he also give bread
    or provide meat for his people?”(C)

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22 “At Taberah also, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.(A)

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22 none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice

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33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.(A) 34 So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah,[a] because there they buried the people who had the craving.(B)

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  1. 11.34 That is, graves of craving