◄ Hebrews 3:16 ►
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Good News Translation
Who were the people who heard God's voice and rebelled against him? All those who were led out of Egypt by Moses.

New Revised Standard Version
Now who were they who heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

Contemporary English Version
Who were those people that heard God's voice and rebelled? Weren't they the same ones that came out of Egypt with Moses?

New American Bible
Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

some.

Hebrews 3:9,10 Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works, . . .

Numbers 14:2,4 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: . . .

Numbers 26:65 For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

Psalm 78:17 And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

not.

Numbers 14:24,30,38 My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it. . . .

Deuteronomy 1:36,38 Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath followed the Lord. . . .

Joshua 14:7-11 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Cadesbarne, to view the land, and I brought him word again as to me seemed true, . . .

Romans 11:4,5 But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men that have not bowed their knees to Baal. . . .

Context
The Peril of Unbelief
…15While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation. 16For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?…
Cross References
Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying:

Numbers 14:11
And the Lord said to Moses: How long will this people detract me? how long will they not believe me for all the signs that I have wrought before them?

Deuteronomy 1:35
Not one of the men of this wicked generation shall see the good land, which I promised with an oath to your fathers:

Deuteronomy 1:36
Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath followed the Lord.

Psalm 78:17
And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

Psalm 78:40
How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

Jeremiah 32:29
And the Chaldeans that fight against this city, shall come and set it on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon whose roofs they offered sacrifice to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath.

Jeremiah 44:3
Because of the wickedness which they have committed, to provoke me to wrath, and to go and offer sacrifice, and worship other gods, which neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.

Jeremiah 44:8
In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come to dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a reproach to all the nations of the earth?

Jude 1:5
I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Hebrews 3:15
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