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Your ancestors tested me there,
    to see if I would punish them.
But they had already seen the great things
    that I had done for them!
10 So I was angry with those people
    all the time for 40 years.
I said, “These people love to go the wrong way.
    They refuse to follow my ways.”
11 I was very angry and I promised,
    “They will never come into my place of rest.” ’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 95:11 See Exodus 17:1-7; Numbers 20:1-13 and Psalms 81:7; 106:32. The Israelites travelled for 40 years in the desert before they went into Canaan, the special land that God had promised to give to them. God gave them food and water in the desert, but they continued to complain. As a result, God let them die in the desert, and only their children went into Canaan.