Hebrews 3:9

3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, ¹  and they saw my works for forty years.

Hebrews 3:15-17

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 

¹ tn Grk “tested me by trial.”

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.

⁵ tn Grk “through Moses.”

⁶ tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

⁷ sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.