Deuteronomy 6:16

Contemporary English Version

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

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.

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

⁴The Most Important Commandment Moses said to Israel: The Lord told me to give you these laws and teachings, so you can obey them in the land he is giving you. Soon you will cross the Jordan River and take that land. And if you and your descendants want to live a long time, you must always worship the Lord and obey his laws. Pay attention, Israel! Our ancestors worshiped the Lord , and he promised to give us this land that is rich with milk and honey. Be careful to obey him, and you will become a successful and powerful nation. Listen, Israel! The Lord our God is the only true God! ⁵ So love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength. ⁶ Memorize his laws ⁷ and tell them to your children over and over again. Talk about them all the time, whether you're at home or walking along the road or going to bed at night, or getting up in the morning. ⁸ Write down copies and tie them to your wrists and foreheads to help you obey them. ⁹ Write these laws on the door frames of your homes and on your town gates. ¹⁰ Moses said to Israel: The Lord promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give you this land. Now he will take you there and give you large towns, with good buildings that you didn't build, ¹¹ and houses full of good things that you didn't put there. The Lord will give you wells that you didn't have to dig, and vineyards and olive orchards that you didn't have to plant. But when you have eaten so much that you can't eat any more, ¹² don't forget it was the Lord who set you free from slavery and brought you out of Egypt. ¹³ Worship and obey the Lord your God with fear and trembling, and promise that you will be loyal to him.

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
just as God had told him to do. And when they were all in the boat, God closed the door.

Genesis 8:6
Forty days later Noah opened a window to send out a raven, but it kept flying around until the water had dried up.

2 Samuel 6:16
Saul's daughter Michal looked out her window and watched the chest being brought into David's City. But when she saw David jumping and dancing for the Lord , she was disgusted.

2 Kings 9:30
Jehu headed toward Jezreel, and when Jezebel heard he was coming, she put on eye shadow and brushed her hair. Then she stood at the window, waiting for him to arrive.

Ezekiel 41:16
were paneled with wood all the way from the floor to the windows, while the doorways, the small windows, and the three side rooms were trimmed in wood.

Ezekiel 42:3
On one side of them was the thirty-four feet of open space that ran alongside the temple, and on the other side was the sidewalk that circled the outer courtyard. The rooms were arranged in three levels

Luke 13:25
Once the owner of the house gets up and locks the door, you will be left standing outside. You will knock on the door and say, "Sir, open the door for us!" But the owner will answer, "I don't know a thing about you!"

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.