KJV King James Version
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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Psalm 95:8
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
WEB World English Bible
Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
ASV American Standard Version
Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
Surrounding context — Psalm 95
5 The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry [land].
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
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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?Hebrews 3:8-9Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:Numbers 20:13This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.Numbers 14:11And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?Numbers 14:22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;Hebrews 3:15-19While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.1 Samuel 6:6Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?Deuteronomy 6:16Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted [him] in Massah.Romans 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;Hebrews 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven:Jude 1:5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.Acts 19:9But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.Exodus 17:2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.Numbers 14:27How 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.Deuteronomy 1:34-35And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,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:Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
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