For if the word spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,

how shall we escape who have neglected so great a salvation? which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was affirmed to us by those who heard,

who is faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was in his house.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of things to be spoken;

Wherefore I was displeased with that generation and said, They always err in mind, and they did not know my ways,

It was said, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation;

And with whom was he displeased forty years? Was it not with those that sinned? whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest? was it not to them that disobeyed?

Since then it remains that some entered into it, and those to whom it was first preached entered not in on account of unbelief,

again he defines a certain day, To-day, saying in David, after so long a time, as it was said before, To-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

And no one takes the honor on himself but he that is called by God, even as Aaron also was.

Who in the days of his flesh having offered both prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, with loud cries and tears, [and being heard and delivered] from fear,??8 although he was a Son, learned obedience from what he suffered,

And behold, how great this man was, to whom even Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils.

for he was yet in his father when Melchisedec met him.

If therefore there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood,??or the people received the law under it,??hat need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec and not to be called after the order of Aaron?

who was not a priest after the law of an external commandment, but after the power of imperishable life.

for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.

And as he was not [constituted] without swearing,??21 for they were made priests without swearing, but he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he will not change, You are a priest forever;??22 by so much is Jesus the pledge of a better covenant.

For such a chief priest also was suitable for us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,

For every chief priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices, whence it was necessary that this man also should have something to offer.

who serve for a symbol and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when about to make the tabernacle; for see, he says, that you make all things after the pattern shown you in the Mount;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

For the first tabernacle was provided, in which were the candlestick and the table and the show bread, which is called the sanctuary.

whence also the first [covenant] was not initiated without blood.

It was necessary, therefore, that the symbols of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

since it was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself.

But in them there was a remembrance of sins, year by year;

Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wast not pleased with;

Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased with, which are offered according to the law,

of how much greater punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy, who has trodden down the Son of God, and accounted defiled the blood of the covenant with which he was purified, and treated injuriously the Spirit of grace.

We know by faith that the worlds were made by the word of God, that the seen was not made from the apparent.

By faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, through which he was declared to be righteous, God testifying to his gifts, and through the same, having died, he speaks still.

By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God;

By faith Abraham being called obeyed and went out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he was going.

of whom it was said, In Isaac shall your posterity be called,

judging that God was able to raise even from the dead; whence also in a figure he received him.

By faith Moses when he was born was hid three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they feared not the command of the king.

of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains, and in caves and openings of the earth.

For you know that afterwards, wishing also to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind, though he sought it with tears.

and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;

and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble,??22 but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in general assembly,