Psalms 78:18

In 11 translations

BSB

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

KJV

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

WEB

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

ASV

And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

LSV

And they try God in their heart, || To ask food for their lust.

YLT

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

DBY

And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;El

DRC77:18

And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

GNV

And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.

JPS

And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving.

LXXE77:18

And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls.

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WLC

וַיְנַסּוּ־אֵ֥ל בִּלְבָבָ֑ם לִֽשְׁאָל־אֹ֥כֶל לְנַפְשָֽׁם׃

LXX-Br77:18

καὶ ἐξεπείρασαν τὸν Θεὸν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν, τοῦ αἰτῆσαι βρώματα ταῖς ψυχαῖς αὐτῶν.

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• Numbers 11:4Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
• Deuteronomy 6:16Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
• 1 Corinthians 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
• Psalms 106:14–15They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert. So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
• 1 Corinthians 10:6These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
• James 4:2–3You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong…
• Exodus 16:2–3And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought…
• Psalms 95:9where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

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