as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”
Parallel translations
- KJV So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
- BSB So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
- NKJV So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
- NASB As I swore in My anger, ‘They certainly shall not enter My rest.’ ”
- NLT So in my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
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- Deut 1:34–35Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
- Heb 4:3For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
- Num 32:10–13Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,
- Num 14:20–23Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word:
- Num 14:35I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
- Deut 2:14The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
- Heb 4:5and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”
- Num 14:27–30“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
- Heb 4:9There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
- Ps 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
- Num 14:25Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn, and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”
- Heb 3:18–19To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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