Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And they try God in their heart, To ask 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.

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.

References

Context Readings

Lessons From Israel's Past

17 And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place. 18 And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust. 19 And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'


Cross References

Numbers 11:4

And the rabble who are in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, 'Who doth give us flesh?

1 Corinthians 10:9

neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

Exodus 16:2-3

And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

Deuteronomy 6:16

'Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

Psalm 95:9

Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

Psalm 106:14-15

And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

1 Corinthians 10:6

and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

James 4:2-3

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

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