not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.
Parallel translations
- WEB because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
- KJV Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
- BSB not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
- NKJV because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,
- NASB Certainly all the people who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
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Quick answer
God charged the people with testing Him ten times despite seeing His glory and signs. Their persistent unbelief had reached its limit.
Overview
The LORD recounted that, after witnessing His mighty works in Egypt and the wilderness, the people had repeatedly tested Him and disobeyed. 'Ten times' signifies a full measure of provocation. God's patience is real but not infinite; persistent rebellion against clear revelation brings judgment.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 19:3You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
- Gen 31:7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
- Ps 106:26Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
- Exod 32:1When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”
- Heb 3:17–18With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Deut 1:31–35and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
- Exod 17:2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
- Matt 4:7Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”
- Mal 3:15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
- 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
- Ps 106:14but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
- 1 Cor 10:5However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
- Ps 95:9–11when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
- Heb 3:9where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
- Exod 14:11They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
- Num 14:11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
- Gen 31:41These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
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