Hebrews 3:16 Caleb and Joshua

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Hebrews 3:16 "Some did provoke:howbeit not all"

Hebrews 3:16 King James Bible - "For SOME, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit NOT ALL that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Notice that this is a statement in the King James Bible. Not everyone provoked God, but some did. Caleb and Joshua did believe God and the thousands of children from 20 years old and under did enter the promised land. It was only the grown men ages 20-up who were able to go to war (Numbers 1:3), numbering 603,548 (Numbers 1:46 minus Joshua and Caleb), who rejected God's command and died in the wilderness.

The children, women, elderly men (unable to go to war), and possibly even all of the Levites (they were not numbered for war - Numbers 1:47) who came out of Egypt (therefore numbering more than the fighting men as a whole by estimation) are not included in the group who provoked God and didn't believe Him. (Numbers 14:29, Deuteronomy 2:14) That is why the Hebrews 3:16 is quite accurate to say "some" and then to describe who those "some" were.

The NKJV clearly did NOT follow the traditional TR in this verse, but chose to go with the Critical text instead.

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