² So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water^(A) to drink.”^(B)

Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?”^(C)

⁷ And he called the place Massah^[a](A) and Meribah^[b](B) because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

⁵ Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.^(A)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples^(B) to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. ⁷ Do not be idolaters,^(C) as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”^{[a](D) 8} We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.^{(E) 9} We should not test Christ,^[b](F) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.^{(G) 10} And do not grumble, as some of them did^(H)—and were killed^(I) by the destroying angel.^(J)