Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

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.

Bible in Basic English

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

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.

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 sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. 18 And they tested God in their heart by asking food for their lust. 19 Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Cross References

Numbers 11:4

And the mixed multitude that was among them had a strong craving: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us test Christ, as some of them also tested him, and were destroyed by serpents.

Exodus 16:2-3

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

Deuteronomy 6:16

You shall not test the LORD your God, as you tested him in Massah.

Psalm 95:9

When your fathers tested me, tried me, and saw my work.

Psalm 106:14-15

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.

1 Corinthians 10:6

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

James 4:2-3

You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.

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