while it is said, “Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”
Parallel translations
- WEB while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”
- KJV While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
- BSB As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
- NKJV while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
- NLT Remember what it says: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled.”
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Quick answer
The text repeats the warning: today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. The urgency of responsive faith is pressed again.
Overview
The author cites Psalm 95 once more, keeping the wilderness warning before the readers. The repetition underscores both the present opportunity ('today') and the danger of repeating Israel's hard-hearted rebellion. It bridges into the questions of the following verses that drive the lesson home.
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Cross-references · 4
- Heb 3:7–8Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
- Ps 95:7for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
- Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
- Heb 10:29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
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