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  • Hebrews 3:17
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 17 Moreover, with whom did God become disgusted for 40 years?+ Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?+

  • Hebrews 3:17
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 17 τίσιν To which (ones) δὲ but προσώχθισεν he became disgusted toward τεσσεράκοντα forty ἔτη; years? οὐχὶ Not τοῖς to the (ones) ἁμαρτήσασιν, having sinned, ὧν of whom τὰ the κῶλα carcasses ἔπεσεν fell ἐν in τῇ the ἐρήμῳ; wilderness?

  • Hebrews 3:17
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 17 Moreover, with whom did [God]* become disgusted for forty years?+ Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?+

  • Hebrews 3:17
    The Bible in Living English
    • 17 and with whom was he disgusted for forty years? was it not with those who had sinned, whose limbs dropped in the wilderness?

  • Hebrews 3:17
    American Standard Version
    • 17 And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • Hebrews 3:17
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 17 But with whom was he sore vexed forty years? Was it not with them who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the desert?

  • Hebrews 3:17
    King James Version
    • 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

  • Hebrews Study Notes—Chapter 3
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 3:17

      whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness: The Greek expression rendered “dead bodies” occurs only here in the Christian Greek Scriptures, but it appears in the Septuagint translation of Nu 14:29, 32, the account Paul is alluding to. This Greek expression was apparently used as a derogatory term for people who were judged as being so bad that they did not deserve a decent burial. (See also Isa 66:24, where the Septuagint uses the same Greek word for “the carcasses,” regarding people who rebel against Jehovah.) Paul uses this negative expression to warn Christians not to follow the bad example of those rebellious Israelites “by drawing away from the living God.”​—Heb 3:12 and study note.

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