They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
- BSB They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- NKJV And they tested God in their heart By asking for the food of their fancy.
- NASB And in their heart they put God to the test By asking for food that suited their taste.
- NLT They stubbornly tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.
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- 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?
- Deut 6:16You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
- 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
- Ps 106:14–15but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
- 1 Cor 10:6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Jas 4:2–3You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
- Ps 95:9when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
- Exod 16:2–3The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
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