¹⁴ But gave in to craving in the desert, And tested God in the wasteland.

⁹ Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

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

⁴ 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?

² Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"

⁸ Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

⁹ Where your fathers tested me by proving me, And saw my works for forty years.

¹⁰ Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know my ways;'

⁸ Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

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

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, And grieved him in the desert!

⁴¹ They turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

³⁰ They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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

¹⁹ Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰ Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, Streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

²² At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

²² because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

³³ While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

³⁴ The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.