Hebrews 3:14-19

3:14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence ¹  firm until the end. 3:15 As it says, ²  “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! ³  Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” ⁴  3:16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? ⁵  3:17 And against whom was God ⁶  provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ⁷  3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 3:19 So ⁸  we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

¹ tn Grk “the beginning of the confidence.”

² tn Grk “while it is said.”

³ tn Grk “today if you hear his voice.”

⁴ sn A quotation from Ps 95:7b-8.

³ tn Grk “through Moses.”

⁴ tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

⁵ sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.

⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.