Discovery BoxHebrews 3:7-10 
Context3:7 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.
3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, 3 and they saw my works for forty years.
3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering 4 and they have not known my ways.’
Hebrews 3:16-19
Context3:16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? 5 3:17 And against whom was God 6 provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 7 3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 3:19 So 8 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 “tested me by trial.”
4 tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”
5 tn Grk “through Moses.”
6 tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.
7 sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.
8 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.
