¹⁶ `Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

¹² And Jesus answering said to him -- `It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

⁷ and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the `strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their `trying' Jehovah, saying, `Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'

⁷ Jesus said to him again, `It hath been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

⁸ Harden not your heart as `in' Meribah, As `in' the day of Massah in the wilderness,

⁹ Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

⁸ ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

⁹ in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

² and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, `What? -- ye strive with me, what? -- ye try Jehovah?'

⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

¹³ These `are' waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have `striven' with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.

⁴ And they journey from mount Hor, the way of the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom, and the soul of the people is short in the way,

⁵ and the people speak against God, and against Moses, `Why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to die in a wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul hath been weary of this light bread.'

³ and the people strive with Moses, and speak, saying, `And oh that we had expired when our brethren expired before Jehovah!

⁴ and why have ye brought in the assembly of Jehovah unto this wilderness to die there, we and our beasts?