15. This is what the scripture says:“If you hear God's voice today,do not be stubborn, as your ancestors werewhen they rebelled against God.”
16. Who were the people who heard God's voice and rebelled against him? All those who were led out of Egypt by Moses.
17. With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert.
18. When God made his solemn promise, “They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest” — of whom was he speaking? Of those who rebelled.
19. We see, then, that they were not able to enter the land, because they did not believe.