Hebrews 3:17
Good News Translation
With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert.

New Revised Standard Version
But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Contemporary English Version
Who were the people that made God angry for 40 years? Weren't they the ones that sinned and died in the desert?

New American Bible
With whom was he “provoked for forty years”? Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

with him.

Hebrews 3:10 Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.

was it.

Numbers 26:64,65 Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:1-13 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. . . .

whose.

Numbers 14:22,29,32,33 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice, . . .

Deuteronomy 2:15,16 For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp. . . .

Jeremiah 9:22 Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it.

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Context
The Peril of Unbelief
16For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert? 18And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?…
Cross References
Numbers 14:28
Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.

Numbers 14:29
In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,

Numbers 14:37
Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

Numbers 26:64
Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai.

Psalm 95:10
Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

1 Corinthians 10:5
But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

Hebrews 3:16
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