KJV King James Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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Hebrews 3:8
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
WEB World English Bible
don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
ASV American Standard Version
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,
Surrounding context — Hebrews 3
5 And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
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:
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.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
μὴG3361 · mēnotσκληρύνητεG4645 · sklērunōto hardenτὰςG3588 · hothe/this/whoκαρδίαςG2588 · kardiaheartὑμῶνG4771 · suyouὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoπαραπικρασμῷG3894 · parapikrasmosrebellionκατὰG2596 · kataaccording toτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἡμέρανG2250 · hēmeradayτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoπειρασμοῦG3986 · peirasmostemptation/testing: temptationἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongτῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐρήμῳ,G2048 · erēmosdeserted
Cross-references
Proverbs 28:14Happy [is] the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.Exodus 17:7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?Zechariah 7:11-12But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.Matthew 13:15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.Psalm 78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:Psalm 78:18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.Daniel 5:20But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:Ezekiel 3:7-9But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel [are] impudent and hardhearted.Jeremiah 7:26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.Hebrews 3:12-13Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.Proverbs 29:1He, that being often reproved hardeneth [his] neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.Job 9:4[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened [himself] against him, and hath prospered?Deuteronomy 6:16Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.Deuteronomy 9:22-24And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.Psalm 106:14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.2 Chronicles 36:13And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.Romans 2:5-6But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
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