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New American Standard Bible (1995)
Deuteronomy 6:16
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You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
You shall not put Yahweh your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
"You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
Do not test the Lord your God as you did at Massah.
You must not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah.
"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.
"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.
Ye shal not tempt the Lord your God, as ye did tempt him in Massah:
"You shall not put Yahweh your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.
so don't try to make him prove that he can help you, as you did at Massah.
Do not put Adonai your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah [testing].
Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
"You must not test the Lord your God like you tested him at Massah.
You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him with temptations.
"Do not put the Lord your God to the test, as you did at Massah.
Do not test the Lord your God as you tested him at Massah.
You shall not test Jehovah your God as you tested Him in Massah.
Ye shal not tempte ye LORDE youre God, as ye tempted him at Massa:
Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
Ye shall not tempt the Lorde your God, as ye dyd in the place of temptation.
Ye shall not try the LORD your God, as ye tried Him in Massah.
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as yee tempted him in Massah.
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as ye tempted him in the temptation.
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
Thou schalt not tempte thi Lord God, as thou temptidist in the place of temptyng.
`Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;
You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.
You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
"You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Massah.
You must not test the Lord your God as you did when you complained at Massah.
"Do not test the Lord your God, as you put Him to the test at Massah.
Do not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
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" .
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.
"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.
Contextual Overview
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
Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him.
Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made;
Then it happened as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window.
The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),
Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery corresponding to gallery in three stories.
"Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, 'Lord, open up to us!' then He will answer and say to you, 'I do not know where you are from.'
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.
