New Revised Standard Version
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.

Contemporary English Version
And don't try to test Christ, as some of them did and were later bitten by poisonous snakes.

New American Bible
Let us not test Christ as some of them did, and suffered death by serpents.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.

tempt.

Exodus 17:2,7 And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord? . . .

Exodus 23:20,21 Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared. . . .

Numbers 21:5 And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

Deuteronomy 6:16 Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.

Psalm 78:18,56 And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires. . . .

Psalm 95:9 As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

Psalm 106:14 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

Hebrews 3:8-11 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert, . . .

Hebrews 10:28-30 A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses: . . .

and were.

Numbers 21:6 Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.