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

⁴ And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

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

² And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:

³ and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

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

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

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

¹⁵ And he gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul.

⁶ Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

² Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend `it' in your pleasures.