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?'

⁴¹ Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

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

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

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

¹² And Ahaz saith, `I do not ask nor try Jehovah.'

¹⁸ And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

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

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

¹⁰ now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

⁹ And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband `are' at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;'

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

¹⁵ And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

¹⁴ And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

⁵⁶ And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

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.'

² And there hath been no water for the company, and they are assembled against Moses, and against Aaron,

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?

⁵ and why hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place? no place of seed, and fig, and vine, and pomegranate; and water there is none to drink.

²² for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice --

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?'

¹¹ And they say unto Moses, `Because there are no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in a wilderness? what is this thou hast done to us -- to bring us out from Egypt?

¹² Is not this the word which we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Cease from us, and we serve the Egyptians; for better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in a wilderness?'

²⁴ And the people murmur against Moses, saying, `What do we drink?'

² And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

³ and the sons of Israel say unto them, `Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety -- for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.'

¹² and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to `me', and he divided to them the living.

¹ And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven,

² and he answering said to them, `Evening having come, ye say, Fair weather, for the heaven is red,

³ and at morning, Foul weather to-day, for the heaven is red -- gloomy; hypocrites, the face of the heavens indeed ye do know to discern, but the signs of the times ye are not able!

⁶ And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they have said, `Give to us a king to judge us;' and Samuel prayeth unto Jehovah.

² and all the sons of Israel murmur against Moses, and against Aaron, and all the company say unto them, `O that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, O that we had died!

⁴ And the rabble who `are' in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, `Who doth give us flesh?

⁵ We have remembered the fish which we do eat in Egypt for nought, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick;

⁶ and now our soul `is' dry, there is not anything, save the manna, before our eyes.'

²¹ and say unto them, `Jehovah look upon you, and judge, because ye have caused our fragrance to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants -- to give a sword into their hand to slay us.'

¹ And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.'

² And Jacob's anger burneth against Rachel, and he saith, `Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?'