Numbers 20:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord and through which he showed himself to be holy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ These are the waters of Meribah [strife], where the Israelites contended with the Lord and He showed Himself holy among them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.

Common English Bible

¹³ These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites confronted the LORD with controversy and he showed his holiness to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ This is the Water of Contradiction, where the sons of Israel were quarreling against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ This is the Water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord and he was sanctified in them.

Numbers 20:13 Cross References

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 17:7

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

Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of hosts is exalted by justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.

Ezekiel 20:41

As a pleasing odor I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 36:23

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations and which you have profaned among them, and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when through you I display my holiness before their eyes.

Ezekiel 38:16

you will come up against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I display my holiness before their eyes.

Deuteronomy 32:51

because both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to maintain my holiness among the Israelites.

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,