Hebrews 3:17-19
3:17 And against whom was God 1 provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 2
3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?
3:19 So 3 we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.
1 tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.
2 sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.
3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.