Luke 4:12

He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ”

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

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?”

The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

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

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”

When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.

You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

Give us today our daily bread.

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

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

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

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

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

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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

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?”

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

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

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.

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

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

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

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?

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.

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

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

But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?

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