Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
This is the water of strife, because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified upon them.
New American Standard Bible
Those were the waters of
King James Version
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Holman Bible
These are the waters of Meribah,
International Standard Version
Because the Israelis argued with the LORD and he was set apart among them, this place was called the Meribah Springs.
A Conservative Version
These are the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel strove with LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
American Standard Version
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.
Amplified
These are the waters of Meribah (contention, strife), where the sons of Israel contended with the Lord, and He showed Himself holy among them.
Bible in Basic English
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.
Darby Translation
These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.
Julia Smith Translation
These the Waters of Strife, because the sons of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he will be consecrated in them.
King James 2000
This is the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified among them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Those [were] the waters of Meribah, where the {Israelites} quarreled with Yahweh, and he showed himself holy among them.
Modern King James verseion
These are the Waters of Strife, because the sons of Israel fought with Jehovah, and He showed Himself holy among them.
NET Bible
These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the Lord, and his holiness was maintained among them.
New Heart English Bible
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
The Emphasized Bible
The same, were the waters of Meribah that is "Contention"in that the sons of Israel contended with Yahweh, - and so he hallowed himself among them.
Webster
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
World English Bible
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
Youngs Literal Translation
These are waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have 'striven' with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.
Themes
Israel » Lack » Complaints » Meribah » Rock » Struck
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 20:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Miriam Dies
12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, "Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them." 13 This is the water of strife, because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified upon them. 14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, "Thus sayeth thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the travail that hath happened us,
Cross References
Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of the place: Massah-and-Meribah: because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"
Psalm 95:8
Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,
Deuteronomy 33:8
And unto Levi he said, "Thy perfectness and thy light be according unto the man of thy mercy, who thou hast tempted at Massah, when ye strove by the waters of strife.
Deuteronomy 32:51
For ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of strife, at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin: because ye sanctified me not among the children of Israel.
Psalm 106:32-48
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that he punished Moses for their sakes,
Isaiah 5:16
But the LORD of Hosts, that holy God: shall be exalted and untouched, when he shall declare his equity and righteousness after this manner.
Ezekiel 20:41
I will accept your sweet savour, when I bring you from the nations, and gather you together out of the lands, wherein ye be scattered: that I may be hallowed in you before the Heathen.
Ezekiel 36:23
that the heathen may know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I am sanctified upon you in their sight.
Ezekiel 38:16
Yea, thou shalt come upon my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. This shall come to pass in the latter days: I will bring thee up into my land, that the Heathen may know me, when I get me honour upon thee; O Gog, before their eyes.