Hebrews 3:9

ASHER NISSUNI AVOTEICHEM BEKHANUNI GAM RA'U PO'OLI ARBA'IM SHANAH (Where your Fathers tested me and tried me though they saw my deeds forty years).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

In Context

8AL TAKSHU LEVAVCHEM KIMRIVAH K'YOM MASSAH BAMIDBAR (Do not harden your heart as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert),

10Therefore AKUT BEDOR VAOMAR AM TO'EY LEVAV HEM V'HEM LO YAD'U DERAKHAI (I was angry with that generation and I said they are a straying-of-heart people and they have not had da'as of my ways);

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Cross References

Exodus 19:4You yourselves have seen what I did unto the Mitzrayim, and how I carried you on eaglesʼ wings, and brought you unto Myself.

Numbers 14:33And your banim shall wander + 14:33 wandering ro'im in the midbar arba'im shanah, and bear + 14:33 the penalty of your whoredoms, + 14:33 zenut, spiritual disloyalty and rebellion until the last of your corpses lies in the midbar.

Deuteronomy 4:9Only be shomer over thyself, and be shomer over thy nefesh diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy lev kol yamim of thy life; but teach them to thy banim, and the banim of thy banim;

Deuteronomy 8:4Thy raiment did not increase old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these arba'im shanah.

Deuteronomy 29:2The massot hagedolot (great trials) which thine eyes have seen, the otot, and those mofetim hagedolim;

Joshua 23:3And ye have seen all that Hashem Eloheichem hath done unto all these Goyim for your sakes; for Hashem Eloheichem is He that hath fought for you.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 3:8-19

Cautions against Apostasy. ( a. d. 62.) 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.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you… Read the whole commentary →

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