But if it yields thorns and thistles, it is thought worthless and almost cursed, and it will finally be burned.

And I might almost say, Levi too, who now collects the tenth, through Abraham paid the tenth,

Now when he speaks of a new agreement, he is treating the first one as obsolete; but whatever is obsolete and antiquated is almost ready to disappear.

And almost all things are purified by blood according to the law, and without effusion of blood there is no remission of sin.