8He says, “Do not become stubborn IDM like your ancestors did at Meribah, and like they did at Massah in the desert.
9There your ancestors ◄wanted to see/tried to determine► if they could do many very evil things without my punishing them. Even though they had seen me perform many miracles, they tested whether I would continue to be patient with them.
10For forty years I was angry with those people, and I said, ‘Those people say that they want to please me, but they do things that I detest. They refuse to obey my commands.’
11So because I was very angry, I solemnly said/declared about them: ‘They will never enter the land of Canaan where I would have allowed them to rest!’”