And thou, Lord, in the beginning didst build from its foundations the earth, and the heavens are works of thy hands;

We ought therefore to attend the more to the things which we heard, lest at any time we should glide away [from them].

See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an evil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God;

For we enter into the rest who believed, as he said, I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest, although of works made from the foundation of the world.

For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day, thus; And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.

For he [Christ] who entered into his rest, also himself rested from his works, as God from his.

For every chief priest taken from men is appointed in behalf of men over things relating to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins,

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,

Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of mind from dead works, and of faith in God,

But the land which drinks in the rain that often falls on it, and produces plants beneficial to those by whom it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

And the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood, have a commandment to tithe the people according to the law, that is their brothers, although descended from Abraham;

but he whose descent is not reckoned from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him who has the promises.

for it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, in respect to which tribe Moses said nothing concerning priests.

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

And they shall not teach every one his [fellow] citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who with an eternal spirit offered himself without fault to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

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.

let us approach with a true heart in a full assurance of faith, sprinkled in heart from an evil conscience, and washed in body with pure water,

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

All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.

And if they had remembered that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return;

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

extinguished the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put to flight encampments of foreigners;

women received their dead from a resurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds.

See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not escape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we [not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven;

And may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

Salute all your guides and all the saints. Those from Italy salute you.