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Numbers 14:22

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I swear that not one of these Israelites will enter the land I promised to give their ancestors. These people have seen my power in Egypt and in the desert, but they will never see Canaan. They have disobeyed and tested me too many times.

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I had to work fourteen of these twenty long years to earn your two daughters and another six years to buy your sheep and goats. During that time you kept changing my wages.

and that he keeps cheating me by changing my wages time after time. But God has protected me.

Isn't ten times enough for you to accuse me? Aren't you ashamed?

They became greedy for food and tested you there in the desert.

So you threatened them by saying, “I'll kill you out here in the desert!

They kept testing him and caused terrible pain for the Holy One of Israel.

They also complained to Moses, “Wasn't there enough room in Egypt to bury us? Is that why you brought us out here to die in the desert? Why did you bring us out of Egypt anyway?

The people complained and said, “Moses, what are we going to drink?”

There in the desert they started complaining to Moses and Aaron,

The people started complaining to Moses, “Give us some water!” Moses replied, “Why are you complaining to me and trying to put the LORD to the test?”

But the people were thirsty and kept on complaining, “Moses, did you bring us out of Egypt just to let us and our families and our animals die of thirst?”

The people had complained and tested the LORD by asking, “Is the LORD really with us?” So Moses named that place Massah, which means “testing” and Meribah, which means “complaining”.

After the people saw that Moses had been on the mountain for a long time, they went to Aaron and said, “Make us an image of a god who will lead and protect us. Moses brought us out of Egypt, but nobody knows what has happened to him.”

Then the men said, “We hope the LORD will punish both of you for making the king and his officials hate us. Now they even have an excuse to kill us.”

who sees and hears so much, but pays no attention.

From then on, whenever the king asked for advice, he found their wisdom was ten times better than that of any of his other advisers and magicians.

See how happy those arrogant people are. Everyone who does wrong is successful, and when they put God to the test, they always get away with it.”

One day the Israelites started complaining about their troubles. The LORD heard them and became so angry that he destroyed the outer edges of their camp with fire.

One day some worthless foreigners among the Israelites became greedy for food, and even the Israelites themselves began moaning, “We don't have any meat!

Although Moses was the most humble person in all the world, Miriam and Aaron started complaining, “Moses had no right to marry that woman from Ethiopia! Who does he think he is? The LORD has spoken to us, not just to him.” The LORD heard their complaint

The LORD said to Moses, “I have done great things for these people, and they still reject me by refusing to believe in my power.

and complained to Moses and Aaron, “We wish we had died in Egypt or somewhere out here in the desert!

except Caleb and Joshua. They remained faithful to the LORD,

Jesus answered, “The Scriptures also say, ‘Don't try to test the Lord your God!’ ”

But most of them did not please God. So they died, and their bodies were scattered all over the desert.

And don't try to test Christ, as some of them did and were later bitten by poisonous snakes.

Don't ever forget how you kept rebelling and making the LORD angry the whole time you were in the desert. You rebelled from the day you left Egypt until the day you arrived here.

For forty years your ancestors tested God and saw the things he did. “Then God got tired of them and said, ‘You people never show good sense, and you don't understand what I want you to do.’




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