¹⁶ Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

¹² And Jesus made answer and said to him, It is said in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

⁷ And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?

⁷ Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

⁸ Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

⁹ When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.

⁸ Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

⁹ When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

² So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

⁹ And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

¹³ These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

⁴ Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.

⁵ And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

³ And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

⁴ Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?