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Bible in Basic English

Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

New American Standard Bible

And in their heart they put God to the test
By asking food according to their desire.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

They deliberately tested God,
demanding the food they craved.

International Standard Version

To test God was in their minds, when they demanded food to satisfy their cravings.

A Conservative Version

And they challenged God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

American Standard Version

And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

Amplified


And in their hearts they put God to the test
By asking for food according to their [selfish] appetite.

Darby Translation

And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

Julia Smith Translation

And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul.

King James 2000

And they tested God in their heart by asking food for their lust.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they tested God in their heart [by] asking food {for their craving}.

Modern King James verseion

And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust.

NET Bible

They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

New Heart English Bible

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

The Emphasized Bible

They put GOD to the proof in their heart, By asking food to their mind:

Webster

And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.

World English Bible

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

References

Context Readings

Lessons From Israel's Past

17 And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land; 18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire. 19 They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

Cross References

Numbers 11:4

And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

1 Corinthians 10:9

And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

Exodus 16:2-3

And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

Deuteronomy 6:16

Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

Psalm 95:9

When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.

Psalm 106:14-15

They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

1 Corinthians 10:6

Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

James 4:2-3

You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

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