Warning Against Hardening the Heart

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Therefore, as the Ruach HaKodesh says, “Today, if you hear God’s voice,

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don’t harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel on that day in the Wilderness when you put God to the test.

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Yes, your fathers put me to the test; they challenged me, and they saw my work for forty years!

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Therefore, I was disgusted with that generation — I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, they have not understood how I do things’;

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in my anger, I swore that they would not enter my rest.”

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Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart lacking trust, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God!

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Instead, keep exhorting each other every day, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you will become hardened by the deceit of sin.

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For we have become sharers in the Messiah, provided, however, that we hold firmly to the conviction we began with, right through until the goal is reached.

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Now where it says, “Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel,”

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who were the people who, after they heard, quarreled so bitterly? All those whom Moshe brought out of Egypt.

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And with whom was God disgusted for forty years? Those who sinned — yes, they fell dead in the Wilderness!

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And to whom was it that he swore that they would not enter his rest? Those who were disobedient.

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