⁸ Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

⁷ And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?

¹⁶ Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

¹³ These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

⁶ Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?

² So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

⁵ Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;

²⁵ See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

¹⁵ As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

¹⁶ Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?

¹⁷ And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

¹⁸ And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

¹⁹ So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.

¹³ But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

⁸ Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,

⁹ When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

⁵ But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:

³⁴ And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

³⁵ Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,

²⁷ How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

²² Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

⁹ But because some of the people were hard-hearted and would not give hearing, saying evil words about the Way before the people, he went away from them, and kept the disciples separate, reasoning every day in the school of Tyrannus.