Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
where your forefathers tried me and tested [my patience] when they saw what I did for forty years.
New American Standard Bible
And saw My works for
King James Version
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Holman Bible
and saw My works
International Standard Version
There your ancestors tested me,
A Conservative Version
where your fathers challenged me, tested me, and saw my works forty years.
American Standard Version
Where your fathers tried me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.
Amplified
Where your fathers tried Me by testing [My forbearance and tolerance],
And saw My works for forty years
[And found I stood their test].
Anderson New Testament
where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Bible in Basic English
When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
Common New Testament
where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
Daniel Mace New Testament
where your fathers provoked me to give proofs of my power forty years, tho' they saw my works.
Darby Translation
where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works forty years.
Godbey New Testament
whom our fathers tempted in proving me, and saw my works forty years.
Goodspeed New Testament
Where your forefathers put my doings to the proof for forty years, Though they saw them all the time.
John Wesley New Testament
Where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Julia Smith Translation
Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
King James 2000
When your fathers tested me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Lexham Expanded Bible
where your fathers tested [me] by trial and saw my works
Modern King James verseion
when your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long.
Moffatt New Testament
where your fathers put me to the proof, and for forty years felt what I could do.
Montgomery New Testament
When your forefathers tried my forbearance And saw my deeds for forty years.
NET Bible
"There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.
New Heart English Bible
where your fathers tested me and challenged me, and saw my works for forty years.
Noyes New Testament
where your fathers tempted me by proving me, and saw my works forty years.
Sawyer New Testament
where your fathers fully proved and saw my works forty years.
The Emphasized Bible
When your fathers tested by proving, and saw my works forty years.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works during forty years.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, And saw my mighty deeds for forty years.
Webster
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Weymouth New Testament
where your forefathers so sorely tried My patience and saw all that I did during forty years.
Williams New Testament
Where your forefathers found I stood their test, because they saw my works for forty years,
World English Bible
where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.
Worrell New Testament
where your fathers tempted Me by proving Me, and saw My works, forty years.
Worsley New Testament
proved me, and saw my works forty years:
Youngs Literal Translation
in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;
Themes
Symbols of the Holy Spirit » A voice » Warning
Self-will » Servants should » Warn the people against
Self-will and stubbornness » Ministers should » Warn their people against
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Hebrews 3:9
Images Hebrews 3:9
Prayers for Hebrews 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Serious Warning Against Unbelief
8 do not have a stubborn heart like you did when you provoked [God] during the time you tested [His patience] in the desert, 9 where your forefathers tried me and tested [my patience] when they saw what I did for forty years. 10 Therefore, I was angry with that generation of people and said, 'They always go astray in their hearts, and they did not understand my ways.'
Cross References
Acts 7:36
This man led them out [of Egypt], performing wonders and [miraculous] signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.
Luke 7:22
So, Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard; [how] blind people are receiving back their sight, and crippled people are walking [again], and people with infectious skin diseases are being healed, and deaf-mutes are hearing [and speaking (?) again], and people are being raised [from the dead], and poor people are having the good news preached to them.
Acts 13:8
But [another] magician, named Elymas (which means "the magician") opposed them, trying to discourage the magistrate from hearing about the faith.