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    Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
    as on the day of Massah in the desert.[a]

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  1. 95:8 Meribah: lit., “contention”; the place where the Israelites quarreled with God. Massah: “testing,” the place where they put God to the trial, cf. Ex 17:7; Nm 20:13.

“Do not harden your hearts(A) as you did at Meribah,[a](B)
    as you did that day at Massah[b] in the wilderness,(C)

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  1. Psalm 95:8 Meribah means quarreling.
  2. Psalm 95:8 Massah means testing.

II. The Call and Commission of Moses

The Burning Bush. 23 A long time passed, during which the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their bondage and cried out, and from their bondage their cry for help went up to God.(A)

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23 During that long period,(A) the king of Egypt died.(B) The Israelites groaned in their slavery(C) and cried out, and their cry(D) for help because of their slavery went up to God.

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The place was named Massah and Meribah,[a] because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord in our midst or not?”(A)

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  1. 17:7 Massah…Meribah: Hebrew words meaning, respectively, “the place of the test” and “the place of strife, of quarreling.”

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?”

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  1. Exodus 17:7 Massah means testing.
  2. Exodus 17:7 Meribah means quarreling.

The Great Theophany. 16 (A)On the morning of the third day there were peals of thunder and lightning, and a heavy cloud over the mountain, and a very loud blast of the shofar,[a] so that all the people in the camp trembled.

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  1. 19:16 Shofar: a ram’s horn used like a trumpet for signaling both for liturgical and military purposes.

16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder(A) and lightning, with a thick cloud(B) over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast.(C) Everyone in the camp trembled.(D)

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13 These are the waters of Meribah,(A) where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord, and through which he displayed his holiness.

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13 These were the waters of Meribah,[a](A) where the Israelites quarreled(B) with the Lord and where he was proved holy among them.(C)

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  1. Numbers 20:13 Meribah means quarreling.

14 For in the rebellion of the community in the wilderness of Zin you both rebelled against my order to acknowledge my holiness before them by means of the water.(A) (These were the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

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14 for when the community rebelled at the waters in the Desert of Zin,(A) both of you disobeyed my command to honor me as holy(B) before their eyes.” (These were the waters of Meribah(C) Kadesh, in the Desert of Zin.)

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