Hebrews 3:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

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  • Exod 17:7 : 7 and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the `strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their `trying' Jehovah, saying, `Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'
  • Num 14:11 : 11 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Until when doth this people despise Me? and until when do they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst?
  • Num 14:22-23 : 22 for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice -- 23 they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;
  • Deut 6:16 : 16 `Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;
  • Deut 9:22-24 : 22 `And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth: 23 and in Jehovah's sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up, and possess the land which I have given to you, then ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, and have not given credence to Him, nor hearkened to His voice; 24 rebels ye have been with Jehovah from the day of my knowing you.
  • 1 Sam 6:6 : 6 and why do ye harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? do they not -- when He hath rolled Himself upon them -- send them away, and they go?
  • 2 Kgs 17:14 : 14 and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 `Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;
  • 2 Chr 36:13 : 13 and also, against king Nebuchadnezzar he hath rebelled, who had caused him to swear by God, and he hardeneth his neck, and strengtheneth his heart, against turning back unto Jehovah, God of Israel.
  • Neh 9:16 : 16 `And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,
  • Job 9:4 : 4 Wise in heart and strong in power -- Who hath hardened toward Him and is at peace?
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.
  • Prov 28:14 : 14 O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.
  • Prov 29:1 : 1 A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.
  • Ezek 3:7-9 : 7 but the house of Israel are not willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto Me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted. 8 `Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead. 9 As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house `are' they.'
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 and when his heart was high, and his spirit was strong to act proudly, he hath been caused to come down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory they have caused to pass away from him,
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing. 12 And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.
  • Acts 19:9 : 9 and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.
  • Rom 2:5-6 : 5 but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who shall render to each according to his works;
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;
  • Heb 3:12-13 : 12 See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God, 13 but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,
  • Exod 8:15 : 15 And Pharaoh seeth that there hath been a respite, and he hath hardened his heart, and hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.

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  • Ps 95:8-10
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    8Harden not your heart as `in' Meribah, As `in' the day of Massah in the wilderness,

    9Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

    10Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

  • Heb 3:15-18
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    15in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

    16for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses;

    17but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

    18and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? --

  • 7Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear --

  • Heb 3:9-13
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    9in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

    10wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

    11so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- !')

    12See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

    13but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

  • Heb 4:6-7
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    6since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --

    7again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

  • Ps 78:40-41
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    40How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?

    41Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

  • 6and why do ye harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? do they not -- when He hath rolled Himself upon them -- send them away, and they go?

  • 8And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God `is' its spirit.

  • 5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

  • 2 Chr 30:7-8
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    7and do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, God of their fathers, and He giveth them to desolation, as ye do see.

    8`Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;

  • 2and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which `is' in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.

  • Deut 9:7-8
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    7`Remember -- do not forget -- that `with' which thou hast made Jehovah thy God wroth in the wilderness; even from the day that thou hast come out of the land of Egypt till your coming in unto this place rebels ye have been with Jehovah;

    8even in Horeb ye have made Jehovah wroth, and Jehovah sheweth Himself angry against you -- to destroy you.

  • 16`And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

  • 9neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

  • Ps 78:17-18
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    17And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.

    18And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

  • 16and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;

  • 22`And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:

  • 39to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • Exod 7:13-14
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    13and the heart of Pharaoh is strong, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.

    14And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `The heart of Pharaoh hath been hard, he hath refused to send the people away;

  • 21the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

  • 14And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

  • 8`Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land;

  • 51`Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

  • 16`Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

  • 1And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go in unto Pharaoh, for I have declared hard his heart, and the heart of his servants, so that I set these My signs in their midst,

  • Deut 8:15-16
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    15who is causing thee to go in the great and the terrible wilderness -- burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst -- where there is no water; who is bringing out to thee waters from the flinty rock;

    16who is causing thee to eat manna in the wilderness, which thy fathers have not known, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee, to do thee good in thy latter end),

  • 15And Pharaoh seeth that there hath been a respite, and he hath hardened his heart, and hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.

  • 14and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,

  • 18`Also, when they have made to themselves a molten calf, and say, this `is' thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and do great despisings,

  • 56And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

  • 12And Jehovah strengtheneth the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses.

  • 27And Jehovah strengtheneth the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath not been willing to send them away;

  • 22for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice --

  • 35and the heart of Pharaoh is strong, and he hath not sent the sons of Israel away, as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses.