Exodus 15:24

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”

even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.

God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

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

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation.

“ ‘ “But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.

When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Don’t quench the Spirit.

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”

But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their complaining against me, that they not die.”

The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.