Hebrews 3:17

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^3:17And against whom was God²⁷ provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?²⁸

27 Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.
28 An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.

And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?

With whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness?

And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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