and liberate those who all their life were subjects of servitude to the fear of death.

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.

And they indeed were made many priests, on account of being forbidden by death to continue;

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

having the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on every side with gold, in which were the golden vase that had the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the covenant,

and over it were the cherubs of glory, overshadowing the propitiation; of which it is not necessary now to speak particularly.

But Christ having come, a chief priest of the good times that were to come, with a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

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

Wherefore also there were born of one, and those of one dead, [a posterity] like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the sands on the sea-shore innumerable.

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.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians attempting were swallowed up.

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;

they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,