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Hebrews 3:9

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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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  1. Acts 7:36Rank 1 from verse 9
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    36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

  2. Deuteronomy 4:9Rank 2 from verse 9
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    9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

  3. Deuteronomy 4:3Rank 3 from verse 9
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    3Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

  4. Deuteronomy 8:4Rank 4 from verse 9
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    4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

  5. Exodus 19:4Rank 5 from verse 9
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    4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.

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Hebrews 3:9

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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tempted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of tempt. Sense 1: To try, test, put to the test. Sense 2: To entice toward evil.

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proved

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of prove, meaning to test, try, examine, or establish as true by evidence.

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works

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Plural of work: acts, deeds, labours, operations, products, or things made.

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8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

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