but that which bears thorns and briars, is look'd upon as lying under a curse; whose end will be to be burnt.

For if the sprinkling of [ceremonially] defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a [burnt] heifer is sufficient for the cleansing of the body,

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

they were stoned, they were tempted, they were burnt, they died by the edge of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, troubled, persecuted,

For you have not come to the mountain that can be touched, and that is burnt with fire, and unto blackness and darkness, and tempest,

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest to purge sin, are burnt without the tents.