Hebrews 3:1-19

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[1] Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; [2] who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house. [3] For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house. [4] For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. [5] Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, [6] but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. [7] Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, [8] Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, [9] Where your fathers tested me by proving me, And saw my works for forty years. [10] Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know my ways;' [11] As I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'" [12] Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God; [13] but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. [14] For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end: [15] while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion." [16] For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn't all those who came out of Egypt by Moses? [17] With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? [18] To whom did he swear that they wouldn't enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? [19] We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Egypt was the land where Israel was enslaved before God delivered them through Moses in the exodus. Hebrews 3 recalls Israel’s subsequent wilderness rebellion, using their failure to trust God after leaving Egypt as a warning against hardened hearts and unbelief.

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Hebrews 3:1-19 mentions Egypt.

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