Numbers 20:13 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹³ These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel contended with the Lord, and he showed himself holy among them.

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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 delivered 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

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

Exodus 17:7

And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the faultfinding of the children of Israel, and because they put the Lord to the proof by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in 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

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

Ezekiel 38:16

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

Deuteronomy 32:51

because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meri-bath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you did not revere me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:8

And of Levi he said, “Give to Levi thy Thummim, and thy Urim to thy godly one, whom thou didst test at Massah, with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;