¹⁸ Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

⁴ And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

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

² And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

³ And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

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

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

¹⁴ They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

¹⁵ And he gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease into their souls.

⁶ Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

² You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

³ You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.