Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat 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.

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.

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 Yet for all this they sinned more against him, and provoked the most highest in the wilderness. 18 They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust. 19 For they spake against God, and said, "Yea yea, God shall prepare a table in the wilderness, shall he?

Cross References

Numbers 11:4

And the rascal people that was among them fell a lusting. And the children of Israel also went to, and wept, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat?

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and were destroyed of serpents.

Exodus 16:2-3

And the whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

Deuteronomy 6:16

Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God as ye did at Massah.

Psalm 95:9

when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.

Psalm 106:14-15

A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert.

1 Corinthians 10:6

These are examples to us that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.

James 4:2-3

Ye lust, and have not. Ye envy and have indignation, and cannot obtain. Ye fight and war, and have not, because ye ask not.

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