Hebrews 3:9
Context3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, 1 and they saw my works for forty years.
Hebrews 3:15-17
Context3:15 As it says, 2 “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 3 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” 4 3:16 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
1 tn Grk “tested me by trial.”
2 tn Grk “while it is said.”
3 tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”
4 sn A quotation from Ps 95:7b-8.
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.