KJV King James Version
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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Psalm 95:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
WEB World English Bible
when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
ASV American Standard Version
When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.
Surrounding context — Psalm 95
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
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Numbers 14:22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;1 Corinthians 10:9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.Psalm 78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:Psalm 78:40-41How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!Psalm 78:17-18And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.John 15:24If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.Matthew 11:20-22Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
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