Deuteronomy 6:16 Cross References - ISV

¹⁶ Do What is Right“Don’t test the LORD your God like you did in Massah.

² The people quarreled with Moses: “Give us water to drink.”
Moses told them, “Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the LORD?”

⁷ He named the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelis quarreled and tested the LORD by saying: “Is the LORD really among us or not?”

³ As the people argued with Moses, they told him, “We wish that we had died when our relatives died in the LORD’s presence! ⁴ Why did you bring the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness? So we and our cattle could die here?

¹³ Because the Israelis argued with the LORD and he was set apart among them, this place was called the Meribah Springs.

⁴ The Bronze SerpentAfter this, they traveled from Mount Hor along the caravan route by way of the Sea of Reeds and went around the land of Edom. But when the people got impatient because it was a long route, ⁵ the people complained against the LORD and Moses. “Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?” they asked. “There’s no food and water, and we’re tired of this worthless bread.”

⁸ do not be stubborn like your ancestors were at Meribah, as on that day at Massah, in the wilderness, ⁹ where your ancestors tested me. They tested me, even though they had seen my awesome deeds.

⁷ Jesus responded to him, “It is also written, ‘You must not tempt the Lord your God.’”

¹² Jesus answered him, “It has been said, ‘You must not tempt the Lord your God.’”

⁹ Let’s stop putting the Lord to the test, as some of them were doing, and were destroyed by snakes.

⁸ do not harden your hearts as they did when they provoked me during the time of testing in the wilderness. ⁹ There your ancestors tested me, even though they had seen my actions