Psalm 78:17
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17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.(A)
Isaiah 63:10
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10 But they rebelled
and grieved his holy spirit;
therefore he became their enemy;
he himself fought against them.(A)
Hebrews 3:16-19
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16 Now who were they who heard and rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?(A) 17 And with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?(B) 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?(C) 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.(D)
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Psalm 106:13-32
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13 But they soon forgot his works;
they did not wait for his counsel.(A)
14 But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness
and put God to the test in the desert;(B)
15 he gave them what they asked
but sent a wasting disease among them.(C)
16 They were jealous of Moses in the camp
and of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.(D)
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan
and covered the faction of Abiram.(E)
18 Fire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.(F)
19 They made a calf at Horeb
and worshiped a cast image.(G)
20 They exchanged the glory of God[a]
for the image of an ox that eats grass.(H)
21 They forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,(I)
22 wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.[b](J)
23 Therefore he said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.(K)
24 Then they despised the pleasant land,
having no faith in his promise.(L)
25 They grumbled in their tents
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.(M)
26 Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness(N)
27 and would disperse[c] their descendants among the nations,
scattering them over the lands.(O)
28 Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;(P)
29 they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and interceded,
and the plague was stopped.(Q)
31 And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.(R)
32 They angered the Lord[d] at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,(S)
Psalm 95:8-10
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8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,(A)
9 when your ancestors tested me
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.(B)
10 For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they do not regard my ways.”(C)
Psalm 78:32
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32 In spite of all this they still sinned;
they did not believe in his wonders.(A)
Deuteronomy 9:12-22
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12 Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up; go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have been quick to turn from the way that I commanded them; they have cast an image for themselves.’(A) 13 Furthermore, the Lord said to me, ‘I have seen that this people is indeed a stubborn people.(B) 14 Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make of you a nation mightier and more numerous than they.’(C)
15 “So I turned and went down from the mountain, while the mountain was ablaze; the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.(D) 16 Then I saw that you had indeed sinned against the Lord your God, by casting for yourselves an image;[a] you had been quick to turn from the way that the Lord had commanded you.(E) 17 So I took hold of the two tablets and flung them from my two hands, smashing them before your eyes. 18 Then I lay prostrate before the Lord as before, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water because of all the sin you had committed, provoking the Lord by doing what was evil in his sight.(F) 19 For I was afraid that the anger that the Lord bore against you was so fierce that he would destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.(G) 20 The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him, but I interceded also on behalf of Aaron at that same time. 21 Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust, and I threw the dust into the stream that runs down the mountain.(H)
22 “At Taberah also, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.(I)
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- 9.16 Gk: Heb image of a calf
Deuteronomy 9:8
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8 “Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.(A)
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