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Hebrews 3:9

Trials and adversityDoubt

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

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.

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

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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.
DARBY
where your fathers tempted [me], by proving [me], and saw my works forty years.
BLB
where forty years your⁺ fathers tested [Me] by trial and saw My works.
ÅB
hvor deres fedre fristet meg ved å sette meg på prøve, enda de så mine gjerninger i førti år;
OTB
hvor deres forfedre prøvde og testet meg, og så mine gjerninger i førti år.
B1930
hvor eders fedre fristet mig ved å sette mig på prøve, enda de så mine gjerninger i firti år;

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Cross references

  • Acts 7:36

    He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

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  • Deuteronomy 4:9

    Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

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  • Deuteronomy 8:4

    Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

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  • Exodus 19:4

    Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.

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  • Deuteronomy 4:3

    Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

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  • Deuteronomy 8:2

    And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

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  • Amos 2:10

    Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

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  • Acts 13:8

    But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

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