Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
⛓ Read Exodus 17 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Massah, the paradigm of 'testing' the LORD at the waters; faint background to v. 9's 'tempt the Spirit of the Lord.'
Low confidenceThe Pharisees and Sadducees 'testing' Jesus by demanding a sign recalls Israel testing the LORD at Massah; the verb of testing carries the wilderness-rebellion overtone. Faint thematic.
Low confidence