¹⁵However, I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the fairest of all lands, which I had given to them, ¹⁶for they rejected My rules, disobeyed My laws, and profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols. ¹⁷But I had compassion on them and did not destroy them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
       ¹⁸I warned their children in the wilderness, Do not follow the practices of your fathers, do not keep their ways, and do not defile yourselves with their idols: ¹⁹I am the Lord your God: Follow My laws and be careful to observe my rules. ²⁰Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. ²¹But the children rebelled against Me: they did not follow My laws, and did not faithfully observe My rules, which if a person does, he will have life by them; they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My fury upon them, to vent all My anger upon them in the wilderness. ²²But I held back My hand and acted for the sake of My name, that it might not be profaned in the sight of the nations before whose eyes I had led them out. ²³However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the lands, ²⁴because they had not obeyed My rules, but rejected my laws, profaned My Sabbaths, and looked with longing to the idols of their fathers. [Ezekiel 20:15-24]

¹⁶Therefore, the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant. ¹⁷It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. [Exodus 31:16-17]

²¹"Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord!' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, only those who do what my Father in heaven requires. ²²On that Day, many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord! Didn't we prophesy in your name? Didn't we cast out demons in your name? Didn't we do many miracles in your name?' ²³Then I will tell them to their faces, 'I never knew you. Get away from me, you who violate the Torah.'" [Matthew 7:21-23]

He that says, I know him, but does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. [1 John 2:4]

     ^3:1Therefore brothers, whom God has set apart to share in the heavenly calling, think carefully about Yeshua, whom we acknowledge publicly as the emissary and cohen gadol. ²Who was faithful to him that appointed him, just as Moshe was in all his house. ³For this man was counted worthy of more honor than Moshe, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house.   ⁴Every house is built by someone, but it is God who built everything.
     ⁵Surely, Moshe was faithful in all his house, as a servant, giving witness of things that would be spoken later. ⁶Mashiach, on the other hand, was faithful as a son over his own house; which house we are if we hold firmly to the courage and confidence inspired by what we hope for.
     ⁷Thus, as the Ruach HaKodesh says,

Today, if you will hear his voice, ⁸do not harden you hearts, as in the provocation when you tested your God in the wilderness: ⁹Yes, your fathers tested me and challenged me and saw my works for forty years. ¹⁰Therefore, I was disgusted with that generation, and said, “Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not understood my ways.” ¹¹In my anger I swore, “They will not enter into my rest.”

     ¹²Watch out brothers, so that there will not be in any of you an evil heart of infidelity leading you to depart from the living God.  ¹³Instead, exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; so that none of you will be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴For we have become sharers with Mashiach if we hold firmly to the conviction that we began with right through to the end.
     ¹⁵While it is said,

Today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the provocation.

     ¹⁶For some, when they had heard, did provoke; however, not all who came out of Egypt with Moshe. ¹⁷With whom, then, was he disgusted for forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?  ¹⁸To whom did he swear that they would not enter into his rest, but to them who were disobedient?  ¹⁹So we see that they could not enter in because of unfaithfulness.
     ^4:1Therefore, let us be terrified by the possibility that, even though the promise of entering his rest remains, any one of you might be judged to have fallen short of it. ²For the good news was preached to us, just as it was to them.  But the message that was preached to them did not do them any good because they that heard it were not faithful. ³We who are faithful, however, do enter into rest.  It is as he has said, "As I have sworn in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest" even though the plan was set from the foundation of the world.
      ⁴But he spoke, in a certain place about the seventh day in this way, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his work." ⁵And again, in the previous place, "They will not enter into my rest." ⁶Look! The fact remains that some must enter into his rest, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter into it because of unfaithfulness.  ⁷Again, he appoints a certain day, saying through David, "Today," so long afterward, as it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." ⁸If Joshua had given them rest, then he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
     ⁹So it remains that God's people must keep the Sabbath [Greek: sabbatismos]. ¹⁰For the one who enters into God's rest has also rested from his own works, just as God did from his. ¹¹Let us therefore diligently enter into that rest so that no one will fall short because of the same kind of disobedience.
     ¹²For the word of God is alive and powerful, and sharper than any double-edged sword. It pierces through, cutting apart the life and spirit and joints and marrow and judges the innermost thoughts and intents of the heart.  ¹³There is nothing in creation that he does not see, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
     ¹⁴Therefore, since we have a great high priest, who has passed into the heavens, Yeshua, the son of God, let us hold firmly to what we know is true.  ¹⁵For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, since he was tempted in every way that we are -- though he did not sin. ¹⁶Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and favor to help in time of need. [Hebrews 3 & 4]