Discovery BoxHebrews 3:7-8 
ContextExposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith
3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, 1
“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 2
3:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:15-19
Context3:15 As it says, 3 “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 4 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” 5 3:16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? 6 3:17 And against whom was God 7 provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 8 3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 3:19 So 9 we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.
1 sn The following quotation is from Ps 95:7b-11.
2 tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”
3 tn Grk “while it is said.”
4 tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”
5 sn A quotation from Ps 95:7b-8.
6 tn Grk “through Moses.”
7 tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.
8 sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.
9 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.
