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Do not harden your hearts as [your fathers did] in the rebellion [of Israel at ^[a]Meribah],
On the day of testing in the wilderness,
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Where your fathers tried Me by testing [My forbearance and tolerance],
And saw My works for forty years
[And found I stood their test].
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“Therefore I was angered with this generation,
And I said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways [nor become progressively better and more intimately acquainted with them]’;