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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.

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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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.”

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.

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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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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