Hebrews 3:9

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

Hebrews 3:17

3:17 And against whom was God ²  provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ³ 

[3:9]  ¹ tn Grk “tested me by trial.”

[3:17]  ² tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

[3:17]  ³ sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.