neither let us try Messiah, as some of them also tried, and were destroyed by serpents,
But greedily lusted in the wilderness, And tried Ě
And they tried Ě
Yet they tried and rebelled Against the Most High Elohim, And did not guard His witnesses,
“When your fathers tried Me, Have proved Me, though they saw My work.
Therefore the people strove with Mosheh, and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Mosheh said to them, “Why do you strive with me? Why do you try יהוה ?”
And he called the name of the place Massah and Meriḇ
“Do not try יהוה your Elohim as you tried Him in Massah.