¹² And Jesus answering said to him -- `It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

¹⁶ `Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

⁹ Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

¹⁴ And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

¹⁵ And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

⁷ Jesus said to him again, `It hath been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

⁸ ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

⁹ in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;