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Deuteronomy 6:16
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Deuteronomy 6:16
16¶ Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
16¶ *Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, *as yee tempted him in Massah.
- Mat. 4.7.
- Exod. 17.2.
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Deuteronomy 6:16
To try, test, put to the test.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Enticed toward evil, put to the test, tried, or provoked, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Massah, the place named for Israel's testing of the Lord in the wilderness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?
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Open the full verse study12And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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Open the full verse study7Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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Open the full verse study8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
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Open the full verse study8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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Open the full verse study9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
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Open the full verse study2Wherefore 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?
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Open the full verse study4¶ And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
5And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
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Open the full verse study13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
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Open the full verse study3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
4And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
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