³⁵ And ^(A)the sons of Israel ate the manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

³³ Also, your sons will be shepherds in the wilderness for ^(A)forty years, and they will ^[a]suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your bodies perish in the wilderness.

⁴² But God ^(A)turned away and gave them over to ^[a]serve the heavenly ^[b]lights; as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘^(B)You did not offer Me victims and sacrifices ^(C)for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?

¹⁸ For ^(A)a period of about forty years ^(B)He put up with them in the wilderness.

The Danger of Unbelief

^12 (F)Take care, brothers and sisters, that there will not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart ^[b]that falls away from ^(G)the living God. ¹³ But ^(H)encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the ^(I)deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ For we have become partakers of Christ ^(J)if we keep the beginning of our ^[c](K)commitment firm until the end, ¹⁵ while it is said,

¹⁶ For who ^(M)provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, ^(N)did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? ¹⁷ And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(O)whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did He swear ^(P)that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were ^(Q)disobedient? ¹⁹ And so we see that they were not able to enter because of ^(R)unbelief.