Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

But of which of the angels has he said at any time, Take your seat at my right hand till I put all those who are against you under your feet?

For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.

And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;

So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;

As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day;

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.

Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:

For he of whom these things are said comes of another tribe, of which no man has ever made offerings at the altar.

Because it is clear that our Lord comes out of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests from that tribe.

So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,

Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail.

Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).

Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.

And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

For the order which said, If the mountain is touched even by a beast, the beast is to be stoned, seemed hard to them;

And the vision was so overpowering that even Moses said, I am shaking and full of fear.

Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.