Hebrews 3:11

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
KJV
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
WEB
As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
ASV
As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
DARBY
so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.
BLB
as I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter into My rest.’”
ÅB
så jeg svor i min vrede: Sannelig, de skal ikke komme inn til min hvile!
OTB
Så jeg sverget i min vrede,
‘De skal aldri komme inn til min hvile.’”
B1930
så jeg svor i min vrede: Sannelig, de skal ikke komme inn til min hvile!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 1:34–35

    And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

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  • Hebrews 4:3

    For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

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  • Numbers 14:20–23

    And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

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  • Hebrews 4:5

    And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

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  • Numbers 32:10–13

    And the LORD’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,

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  • Deuteronomy 2:14

    And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

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  • Numbers 14:35

    I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

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  • Numbers 14:27–30

    How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

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