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

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

⁶ and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

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?

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?'

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;

¹⁰ wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

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.

⁴⁰ How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?

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

³⁰ They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet `is' their food in their mouth,

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

¹⁹ And they speak against God -- they said: `Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

²⁰ Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. `Also -- bread `is' He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'

²² `And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:

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 --

³³ The flesh is yet between their teeth -- it is not yet cut off -- and the anger of Jehovah hath burned among the people, and Jehovah smiteth among the people -- a very great smiting;

³⁴ and `one' calleth the name of that place Kibroth-Hattaavah, for there they have buried the people who lust.