Numbers 27:14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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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Exodus 17:7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 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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- 17:7 Massah…Meribah: Hebrew words meaning, respectively, “the place of the test” and “the place of strife, of quarreling.”
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