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Do Not Harden Your Hearts

Hebrews 3:9

In 9 translations

BSB
where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
KJV
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
WEB
where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
ASV
Where your fathers tried me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.
LSV
in which your fathers tempted Me; they proved Me, and saw My works [for] forty years;
YLT
in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;
DBY
where your fathers tempted [me], by proving [me], and saw my works forty years.
DRC
Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,
GNV
Where your fathers tempted me, prooued me, and sawe my workes fourtie yeeres long.

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Where the editions differ

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  • In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include με (“me”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording (2 places).
  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read δοκιμασίᾳ (“testing”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἐδοκιμασάν (“they tested”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
  • In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include ἐν (“by”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
  • Spelling of τεσσεράκοντα: Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text: τεσσαράκοντα.
SBLGNT apparatus (2)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: ἐπείρασαν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἐπείρασαν; Robinson–Pierpont add με.
  • SBLGNT: ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐδοκιμασάν με.

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Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
οὗ ἐπείρασαν οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου
RP2018
οὗ ἐπείρασάν με οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν, ἐδοκίμασάν με, καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη.
TR-Boyd
οὗ ἐπείρασάν με οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν, ἐδοκίμασάν με, καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη.
SCR1894
ου επειρασαν με οι πατερες υμων εδοκιμασαν με και ειδον τα εργα μου τεσσαρακοντα ετη

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Acts 7:36He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
  • Deuteronomy 4:9Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and…
  • Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
  • Exodus 19:4‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.
  • Deuteronomy 8:4Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
  • Acts 13:8But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.
  • Amos 2:10And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
  • Joshua 23:3“and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
  • Exodus 20:22Then the LORD said to Moses, “This is what you are to tell the Israelites: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.
  • Luke 7:22So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
  • Numbers 14:33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
  • Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
  • Joshua 24:7So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness…
  • Deuteronomy 29:2Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
  • Joshua 5:6For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He…
  • Deuteronomy 11:7For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.

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