Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
- BSB But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
- NKJV But they sinned even more against Him By rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.
- NASB ¶Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
- NLT Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
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- Isa 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
- Heb 3:16–19For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?
- Deut 9:8Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.
- Ps 95:8–10Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
- Ps 106:13–32They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
- Deut 9:12–22Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”
- Ps 78:32For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
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