You must not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah.

Moreover, you continued to provoke the Lord at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

Of Levi he said: Your Thummim and Urim belong to your godly one, whose authority you challenged at Massah, and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah.

He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”