Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

because they were rebellious against his spirit, and he spoke ill-advisedly with his lips.

New American Standard Bible

Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.

King James Version

Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

Holman Bible

for they embittered his spirit,
and he spoke rashly with his lips.

International Standard Version

For they rebelled against him, so that he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

American Standard Version

Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

Amplified


Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.

Bible in Basic English

For they made his spirit bitter, and he said unwise things.

Darby Translation

For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

Julia Smith Translation

For they embittered his spirit, and he talked idly with his lips.

King James 2000

Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke rashly with his lips.

Lexham Expanded Bible

because they rebelled against his Spirit, and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

Modern King James verseion

because they provoked his spirit so that he spoke rashly with his lips.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

NET Bible

for they aroused his temper, and he spoke rashly.

New Heart English Bible

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

The Emphasized Bible

For they embittered his spirit, and he spake rashly with his lips.

Webster

Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

World English Bible

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

Youngs Literal Translation

For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

בּטה בּטא 
Bata' 
Usage: 4

References

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Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

32 They also angered him at the waters of Meribah, so that it went ill with Moses because of them, 33 because they were rebellious against his spirit, and he spoke ill-advisedly with his lips. 34 They did not destroy the peoples, as LORD commanded them,

Cross References

Numbers 20:10-11

And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, ye rebels. Shall we bring forth water to you out of this rock?

Genesis 30:1

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.

Genesis 35:16-18

And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 38:2

Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Job 42:7-8

And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Jo

Psalm 39:1

I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked man is before me.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Psalm 107:11

because they rebelled against the words of God, and scorned the counsel of the Most High.

Psalm 141:3

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

James 3:2

For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

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