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

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

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

¹⁸ And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

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

⁴¹ Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

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

⁹ And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband `are' at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;'

¹⁰ Then saith Jesus to him, `Go -- Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

⁴ But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

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

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

⁵⁶ And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

²² for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice --

⁷ and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the `strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their `trying' Jehovah, saying, `Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'

² and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, `What? -- ye strive with me, what? -- ye try Jehovah?'

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

³¹ `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

³² I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.'

⁴² Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

¹⁶ and they said to him, `Hearest thou what these say?' And Jesus saith to them, `Yes, did ye never read, that, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst prepare praise?'