KJV King James Version
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
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Deuteronomy 9:22
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
WEB World English Bible
At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
ASV American Standard Version
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 9
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down [at the first]; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
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Numbers 11:34And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.Exodus 17:7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?Numbers 11:1-5And [when] the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard [it]; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed [them that were] in the uttermost parts of the camp.
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