Deuteronomy 6:16

Bible in Basic English

Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did 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.

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 Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord: ⁵ And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ⁶ Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; ⁷ Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. ⁸ Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; ⁹ Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns. ¹⁰ And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building; ¹¹ And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full; ¹² Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. ¹³ Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths 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
Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.

Genesis 8:6
Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,

2 Samuel 6:16
And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish.

2 Kings 9:30
And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.

Ezekiel 41:16
And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;

Ezekiel 42:3
Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.

Luke 13:25
When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come 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.