Hebrews 3:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 7:36 : 36 This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.
  • Exod 19:4 : 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.
  • Exod 20:22 : 22 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven
  • Num 14:33 : 33 And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.
  • Deut 4:3 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 And 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.
  • Deut 8:4 : 4 Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.
  • Deut 11:7 : 7 But your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord which he has done.
  • Deut 29:2 : 2 And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;
  • Josh 5:6 : 6 For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Josh 23:3 : 3 You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.
  • Josh 24:7 : 7 And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.
  • Amos 2:10 : 10 And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.
  • Luke 7:22 : 22 And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.
  • Acts 13:8 : 8 But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.

Similar Verses (AI)

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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 3:10-11
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    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.

  • Heb 3:8
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    8Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

  • Heb 3:15-17
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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?

  • Num 14:22-23
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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;

    23They 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.

  • Ps 78:40-41
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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.

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

  • Acts 13:18
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    18And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

  • Deut 8:2
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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.

  • Deut 8:15-16
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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;

  • Deut 9:22-24
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    22Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

    23And 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.

    24From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.

  • Num 14:33-34
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    33And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

    34And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.

  • 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;

  • Neh 9:15-16
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    15And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

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

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    11And 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?

  • Ps 78:17-18
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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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    14They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

  • Deut 29:5
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    5For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.

  • Acts 7:39
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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,

  • Acts 7:36
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    36This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

  • Deut 8:4
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    4Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.

  • Neh 9:21
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    21Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

  • Deut 9:7-8
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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.

  • Amos 5:25
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    25Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

  • Ps 78:56
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    56But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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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.

  • Num 14:29
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    29Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

  • Deut 29:3
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    3The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:

  • Ps 78:8
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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.

  • Deut 1:33-34
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    33Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.

    34And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

  • Deut 6:16
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    16Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

  • Jer 11:7
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    7For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.

  • Ps 106:7
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    7Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

  • Num 32:13
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    13Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

  • Neh 9:30
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    30Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.