Deuteronomy 6:16

Myles Coverdale Bible

Ye shal not tempte ye LORDE youre God, as ye tempted him at Massa:

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.

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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall not try the LORD your God, as ye tried Him in Massah.

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 Heare O Israel, the LORDE oure God is one LORDE onely. ⁵ And thou shalt loue the LORDE thy God wt all thy hart, with all yi soule, & with all thy mighte. ⁶ And these wordes, which I commaude the this daie, shalt thou take to hert, ⁷ & shalt whet them vpon yi children, and shalt talke of them, wha thou syttest in thyne house, & whan thou walkest by the waie: whan thou lyest downe, & wha thou rysest vp. ⁸ And thou shalt bynde them for a signe vpon thine hande, and they shall be a token of remebraunce before thine eyes, ⁹ and thou shalt wryte them vpon the postes of thine house, and vpon thy gates. ¹⁰ Now whan ye LORDE yi God shal bringe the in to ye londe wherof he sware vnto yi fathers Abraham, Isaac, & Iacob, and shal geue the greate & goodly cities, which thou hast not buylded: ¹¹ and houses full of all goodes, which thou hast not filled: & digged welles which thou hast not digged: and vynyardes and olyue trees, which thou hast not plated, so yt thou eatest and art full: ¹² then bewarre that thou forget not the LORDE, which brought the out of the londe of Egipte, fro the house of bondage: ¹³ but thou shalt feare the LORDE thy God, and him onely shalt thou serue, and sweare by his name.

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 these were the male & the female of all maner of flesh, and wente in, acordinge as God commauded him. And the LORDE shut (the dore) vpon him.

Genesis 8:6
After fourtie dayes Noe opened ye wyndow of the Arcke which he had made,

2 Samuel 6:16
And whan the Arke of the LORDE came into the cite of Dauid, Michol the doughte of Saul loked out at a window, and sawe kynge Dauid leapynge, sprynginge and dausynge before the LORDE, and despysed him in hir hert.

2 Kings 9:30
And whan Iehu came to Iesrael, and Iesabel herde therof, she coloured hir face, and decked hir heade, and loked out at the wyndowe.

Ezekiel 41:16
ye syde postes, these thre had syde wyndowes, and pilers rounde aboute ouer agaynst the postes, from the grounde vp to the wyndowes: The wyndowes them selues were syled ouer with bordes:

Ezekiel 42:3
ouer agaynst the xx. cubites of the ynnermer courte, & agaynst the paued worke that was in the fore courte. Besyde all these thre there stode pilers, one ouer against another:

Luke 13:25
From that tyme forth, whan the good man of the house is rysen vp, and hath shut the dore, then shal ye begynne to stonde without, and to knocke at ye dore, and saye: LORDE LORDE, open vnto vs. And he shal answere, and saye vnto you: I knowe you not whence ye are.

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.