In the day of the temptation in the wilderness;
9Where your fathers tempted me,
Proved me, and saw my works, forty years.
10Wherefore, I was offended with that generation;
And I said: They always go astray in their heart,
And they knew not my ways;
11As I swore in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest.
12Take heed, brethren, lest there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called To-day, that no one of you may be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end. 15When it is said: To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation; 16who then, when they had heard, provoked? Nay, was it not all who came forth out of Egypt by Moses? 17But with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with those who sinned? whose carcasses fell in the wilderness. 18And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not? 19And we see that they were not able to enter in, because of unbelief.
IV. Let us fear therefore, lest, a promise being still left us of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. 2For to us were the glad tidings preached, as also to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mingled with faith in those who heard. 3For we who believed enter into the rest, as he said: As I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4For he has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day thus: And God rested on the seventh day from all his works; 5and in this again: They shall not enter into my rest.