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THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
EXODUS
CHAPTER 17
  7 And he called the name of the place aMassah, and bMeribah, because of the cchiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

Footnotes
7a
IE Testing, Trying, or Proving.
b
IE Strife, Complaint.
Num. 20: 13.
  13 This is the water of aMeribah; because the children of Israel bstrove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
Ps. 81: 7.
  7 Thou calledst in atrouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret bplace of thunder: I cproved thee at the waters of dMeribah. Selah.
c
OR complaints, contention.
Deut. 9: 22.
  22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye aprovoked the Lord to wrath.