but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
Parallel translations
- KJV But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
- BSB They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
- NKJV But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tested God in the desert.
- NASB But became lustfully greedy in the wilderness, And put God to the test in the desert.
- NLT In the wilderness their desires ran wild, testing God’s patience in that dry wasteland.
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- 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
- Exod 17:2Therefore 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?”
- Num 11:4The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
- 1 Cor 10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Heb 3:8–10don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
- Num 11:33–34While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
- Ps 78:18–20They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
- Ps 78:30They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
- Ps 78:40–41How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
- Num 14:22because 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;
- Deut 9:22At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
- Ps 95:8–9Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
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