Deuteronomy 6:16

JPS Old Testament

Ye shall not try the LORD your God, as ye tried Him in Massah.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

King James Version
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Lexham English Bible
You shall not put Yahweh your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

English Standard Version
"You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

New Century Version
Do not test the Lord your God as you did at Massah.

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

Amplified Bible
"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shal not tempt the Lord your God, as ye did tempt him in Massah:

Legacy Standard Bible
"You shall not put Yahweh your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.

Contemporary English Version
so don't try to make him prove that he can help you, as you did at Massah.

Complete Jewish Bible
Do not put Adonai your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah [testing].

Darby Translation
Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Easy-to-Read Version
"You must not test the Lord your God like you tested him at Massah.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him with temptations.

Good News Translation
"Do not put the Lord your God to the test, as you did at Massah.

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not test the Lord your God as you tested him at Massah.

Literal Translation
You shall not test Jehovah your God as you tested Him in Massah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shal not tempte ye LORDE youre God, as ye tempted him at Massa:

American Standard Version
Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Bible in Basic English
Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall not tempt the Lorde your God, as ye dyd in the place of temptation.

King James Version (1611)
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as yee tempted him in Massah.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as ye tempted him in the temptation.

English Revised Version
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not tempte thi Lord God, as thou temptidist in the place of temptyng.

Young's Literal Translation
`Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

Update Bible Version
You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.

World English Bible
You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

New King James Version
"You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Massah.

New Living Translation
You must not test the Lord your God as you did when you complained at Massah.

New Life Bible
"Do not test the Lord your God, as you put Him to the test at Massah.

New Revised Standard
Do not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye shall not put Yahweh your God to the proof, - as ye put him to the proof in Massah that is, "The place of proving" .

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.

Revised Standard Version
"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one. ⁵ And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. ⁶ And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; ⁷ and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. ⁸ And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. ⁹ And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates. ¹⁰ And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land which He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee--great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, ¹¹ and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which thou the didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied-- ¹² then beware lest thou forget the LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹³ Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; and Him shalt thou serve, and by His name shalt thou swear.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tempt: Matthew 4:7, Luke 4:12

tempted him: Exodus 17:2, Exodus 17:7, Numbers 20:3, Numbers 20:4, Numbers 20:13, Numbers 21:4, Numbers 21:5, Psalms 95:8, Psalms 95:9, 1 Corinthians 10:9, Hebrews 3:8, Hebrews 3:9

Reciprocal: Psalms 78:41 - Yea Isaiah 7:12 - tempt Mark 8:11 - tempting

Cross-References

Genesis 7:16
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 8:6
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

2 Samuel 6:16
And it was so, as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

2 Kings 9:30
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.

Ezekiel 41:16
the jambs, and the narrow windows, and the galleries, that they three had round about, over against the jambs there was a veneering of wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows; and the windows were covered;

Ezekiel 42:3
over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court; with gallery against gallery in three stories.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God,.... By striving with him or against him, by murmuring at or complaining of his providential dealings with them, or by requiring a sign of him, or miracles to be done by him; this is another passage used by Christ to repel the temptations of Satan, Matthew 4:7,

as tempted him in Massah; a place so called from the Israelites tempting the Lord there, Exodus 17:7, the Targum of Jonathan adds, with ten temptations; see Numbers 14:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;

(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and

(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.

The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing in common conversation. It is not the purpose of Moses to encourage the practice of taking oaths, but to forbid that, when taken, they should be taken in any other name than that of Israel’s God. The oath involves an invocation of Deity, and so a solemn recognition of Him whose Name is made use of in it. Hence, it comes especially within the scope of the commandment Moses is enforcing.

Deuteronomy 6:25

It shall be our righteousness - i. e., God will esteem us as righteous and deal with us accordingly. From the very beginning made Moses the whole righteousness of the Law to depend entirely on a right state of the heart, in one word, upon faith.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 6:16. Ye shall not tempt the Lord — Ye shall not provoke him by entertaining doubts of his mercy, goodness, providence, and truth.

As ye tempted him in Massah. — How did they tempt him in Massah? They said, Is the Lord among us or not? Exodus 17:1-7. After such proofs as they had of his presence and his kindness, this was exceedingly provoking. Doubting God's kindness where there are so many evidences of it, is highly insulting to God Almighty.