Exodus 17:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Therefore, the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do you find fault with me? Why do you tempt the Lord and try His patience?

American Standard Version (1901)

² Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?

Common English Bible

² The people argued with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why are you arguing with me? Why are you testing the LORD?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And arguing against Moses, they said, "Give us water, so that we may drink." And Moses answered them: "Why argue against me? For what reason do you tempt the Lord?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord?

Exodus 17:2 Cross References

Psalm 106:13

They soon forgat his works; They waited not for his counsel:

Psalm 106:14

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.

Psalm 78:18

And they tempted God in their heart By asking meat for their lust.

Psalm 78:41

And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

Psalm 95:8

Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness:

Psalm 95:9

When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.

Exodus 15:24

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

Exodus 16:8

And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.

Exodus 17:7

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

Exodus 5:21

and they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and are delivered.

Numbers 14:2

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:22

because all those men which have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Numbers 21:5

And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

Matthew 4:7

Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Luke 15:12

and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of thy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

Luke 4:12

And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Acts 15:10

Now therefore why tempt ye God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Acts 5:9

But Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us tempt the Lord, as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents.

Deuteronomy 6:16

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Deuteronomy 9:22

And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.

Hebrews 3:9

Wherewith your fathers tempted me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.

1 Samuel 8:6

But the thing displeased Samuel; when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.