Hebrews 3:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

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  • Exod 17:7 : 7 And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?
  • Num 14:11 : 11 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?
  • Num 14:22-23 : 22 Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice; 23 They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.
  • Deut 9:22-24 : 22 Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry. 23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice. 24 From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.
  • 1 Sam 6:6 : 6 Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.
  • Neh 9:16 : 16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,
  • Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.
  • Ezek 3:7-9 : 7 But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart. 8 See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows. 9 Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing; 12 And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
  • Acts 19:9 : 9 But because some of the people were hard-hearted and would not give hearing, saying evil words about the Way before the people, he went away from them, and kept the disciples separate, reasoning every day in the school of Tyrannus.
  • Rom 2:5-6 : 5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness; 6 Who will give to every man his right reward:
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.
  • Heb 3:12-13 : 12 My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God: 13 But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
  • Exod 8:15 : 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

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  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

    9When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.

    10For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

  • Heb 3:15-18
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    15As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

    16Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

    17And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

    18And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

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    9When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

    10So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;

    11And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.

    12My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

    13But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

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    6So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,

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    40How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

    41Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

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    6Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?

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    8And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

    8Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

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    2And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

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    7Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord.

    8Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.

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    16But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

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    9And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

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    17And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

    18Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

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    16Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

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    22Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

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    39By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Exod 7:13-14
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    13But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

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    21Fathers, do not be hard on your children, so that their spirit may not be broken.

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    14They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

  • Num 32:8
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    8So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

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    51You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

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    16Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

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    15Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

    16Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;

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    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
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    14And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

  • Neh 9:18
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    18Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

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    56But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

  • Exod 9:12
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    12And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

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    27But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not let them go.

  • Num 14:22
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    22Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

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    35And the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not let the people go, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Moses.