15-19 For who were the people who turned a deaf ear? Weren’t they the very ones Moses led out of Egypt? And who was God provoked with for forty years? Wasn’t it those who turned a deaf ear and ended up corpses in the wilderness? And when he swore that they’d never get where they were going, wasn’t he talking to the ones who turned a deaf ear? They never got there because they never listened, never believed.

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15 As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”[a](A)

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?(B) 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?(C) 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest(D) if not to those who disobeyed?(E) 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8