Deuteronomy 6:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ You shall not tempt and try the Lord your God as you tempted and tried Him in Massah. [Exod. 17:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Don’t test the LORD your God the way you frustrated him at Massah.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in the place of temptation.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as thou temptedst him in the place of temptation.

Deuteronomy 6:16 Cross References

Psalm 78:18

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Exodus 17:2

Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?

Exodus 17:7

And he called the name of the place Massah, and Mer´ibah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

Numbers 20:13

This is the water of Mer´ibah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

Matthew 4:7

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

Luke 4:12

And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Deuteronomy 33:8

And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Mer´ibah;