Exodus 17:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ He called the place Massah [proof] and Meribah [contention] because of the faultfinding of the Israelites and because they tempted and tried the patience of the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us or not?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?

Common English Bible

⁷ He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites argued with and tested the LORD, asking, “Is the LORD really with us or not?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And he called the name of that place 'Temptation,' because of the arguing of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying: "Is the Lord with us, or not?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And he called the name of that place Temptation, because the chiding of the children of Israel; and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?

Exodus 17:7 Cross References

Psalm 106:32

They angered the Lord at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account,

Psalm 78:18

They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.

Psalm 81:7

In distress you called, and I rescued you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

Psalm 81:8

Hear, O my people, while I admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

Psalm 95:8

Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

Exodus 17:2

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 the Lord?”

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, my Lord, I pray, let my Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Isaiah 12:6

Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

Micah 3:11

Its rulers give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets give oracles for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Surely the Lord is with us! No harm shall come upon us.”

Numbers 14:22

none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice

Numbers 20:13

These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord and through which he showed himself to be holy.

Numbers 20:24

“Let Aaron be gathered to his people. For he shall not enter the land that I have given to the Israelites, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.

Numbers 27:14

because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled with me. You did not show my holiness before their eyes at the waters.” (These are the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

Deuteronomy 31:17

My anger will be kindled against them on that day. I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become easy prey, and many terrible troubles will come upon them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these troubles come upon us because our God is not in our midst?’

Deuteronomy 33:8

And of Levi he said, “Give to Levi your Thummim and your Urim to your loyal one, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah,

Deuteronomy 6:16

“Do not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

Deuteronomy 9:22

“At Taberah also, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.

Joshua 22:31

The priest Phinehas son of Eleazar said to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the Manassites, “Today we know that the Lord is among us, because you have not committed this treachery against the Lord; now you have saved the Israelites from the hand of the Lord.”