⁹ Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.

⁵ And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

⁶ And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

⁷ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?

¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

² Wherefore the people stove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? Wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?

⁸ Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

⁹ Where your fathers tried `me' by proving `me,' And saw my works forty years.

¹⁰ Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know my ways;

¹¹ As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

¹⁴ But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.

⁹ When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.

⁵⁶ Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

¹⁶ Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

²⁸ A man that hath set at nought Moses law dieth without compassion on `the word of' two or three witnesses:

²⁹ of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

³⁰ For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

²⁰ Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

²¹ Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him.