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

⁴ 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?

⁹ nor let us ^[a]tempt Christ, as ^(A)some of them also tempted, and ^(B)were destroyed by serpents;

² 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. ^3 (A)You ask and do not receive, ^(B)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

⁶ Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as ^(A)they also lusted.

² Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel ^(A)complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. ³ 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.”