^17:23Your ancestors,⁴⁶ however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused⁴⁷ to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.’

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46 Heb “They.” The antecedent is spelled out to avoid any possible confusion.
47 Heb “They hardened [or made stiff] their neck so as not to.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They wouldn’t listen or pay attention but became obstinate, not listening or accepting discipline.

NLTNew Living Translation

but they did not listen or obey. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or accept my discipline.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Yet they did not listen, and they did not incline their ear, and they hardened their neck so as to not hear, nor to receive discipline.

KJV 1900King James Version

But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

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