Exodus 17:2
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Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
In other translations
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
Hebrew words
וַיָּרֶבvaiyarevand it quarreledH7378הָעָםha'amthe peopleH5971עִם־'im-withH5973מֹשֶׁהmoshehMosesH4872וַיֹּאמְרוּvaiyomeruand they saidH559תְּנוּ־tenu-giveH5414לָנוּlanuto <the> usמַיִםmayimwaterH4325וְנִשְׁתֶּהvenishtehso we may drinkH8354וַיֹּאמֶרvaiyomerand he saidH559לָהֶםlahemto <the> themמֹשֶׁהmoshehMosesH4872מַה־mah-why?H4100תְּרִיבוּןterivunare you quarreling !H7378עִמָּדִי'imadiwith meH5978מַה־mah-why?H4100תְּנַסּוּןtenasunare you putting to [the] test !H5254אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853יְהוָה׃yahwehYahwehH3068
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Psalm 78:18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- Deuteronomy 6:16Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
- 1 Corinthians 10:9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
- Psalm 78:41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 7:12But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask; I will not test the LORD.”
- Hebrews 3:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
- Matthew 4:7Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
- Acts 15:10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
- Psalm 95:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
- Numbers 20:2-52 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord! 4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? 5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.2 Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron. 3 The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD! 4 Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here? 5 Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
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