Hebrews 10

The Perfect Sacrifice

1Since the law has only a shadow of the good things # 10:1 Col 2:17; Heb 8:5; 9:11 to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year. 2Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year. 4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5Therefore, as he was coming into the world, he said:

You did not desire sacrifice and offering,

but you prepared a body for me.

6 You did not delight

in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.

7 Then I said, “See —

it is written about me

in the scroll —

I have come to do your will, God.” # 10:5–7 Ps 40:6–8,# 10:5–7 Ps 40:6–8; Jr 36:2; Heb 1:6

8After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law # 10:8 Mk 12:33; Heb 10:5–6), 9he then says, See, I have come to do your will. # 10:9 Other mss add God He takes away the first to establish the second. 10By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time. # 10:10 Jn 17:19; Heb 7:27; 9:12

11Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins. # 10:11 Nm 28:3; Heb 5:1 12But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. # 10:12 Or offering one sacrifice for sins, sat down forever at the right hand of God,# 10:12 Rm 8:34; Eph 1:20; Col 3:1; Heb 1:3; 8:1; 12:2; 1Pt 3:22 13He is now waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. # 10:13 Ps 110:1; Mt 22:44; Mk 12:36; Lk 20:43; Ac 2:34–35; 1Co 15:25; Heb 1:13 14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. 15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after he says:

16 This is the covenant I will make with them

after those days,

the Lord says,

I will put my laws on their hearts

and write them on their minds, 17andI will never again remember

their sins and their lawless acts. # 10:16–17 Jr 31:33–34,# 10:16–17 Jr 31:33–34; Heb 8:10,12

18Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Exhortations to Godliness

19Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus # 10:19 Eph 2:18; Heb 9:25 — 20he has inaugurated # 10:20 Or opened for us a new and living way through the curtain (that is, through his flesh # 10:20 Jn 10:9; Heb 9:3,8) — 21and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, # 10:21 Heb 2:17; 4:14 22let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. # 10:22 Ezk 36:25; Heb 9:14 23Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful. # 10:23 1Co 1:9; Heb 3:6 24And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, 25not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, # 10:25 Ac 2:42; Rm 13:11; Heb 3:13 and all the more as you see the day approaching.

Warning against Deliberate Sin

26For if we deliberately go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, # 10:26 Nm 15:30; Dt 17:12; Heb 6:4; 2Pt 2:20–21; 1Jn 5:16 27but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries. # 10:27 Is 26:11; Zph 1:18; 2Th 1:8 28Anyone who disregarded the law of Moses died without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses. # 10:28 Dt 17:6; Heb 2:2 29How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, who has regarded as profane # 10:29 Or ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? # 10:29 Mt 12:31–32; Eph 4:30; Heb 6:6 30For we know the one who has said,

Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, # 10:30 Other mss add says the Lord,# 10:30 Dt 32:35

and again,

The Lord will judge his people. # 10:30 Dt 32:36,# 10:30 Dt 32:35–36; Ps 135:14; Rm 12:19

31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. # 10:31 Mt 16:16; Lk 12:5

32Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings. # 10:32 Php 1:29–30; Heb 6:4 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way. # 10:33 1Co 4:9; Php 4:14; 1Th 2:14 34For you sympathized with the prisoners # 10:34 Other mss read sympathized with my imprisonment and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession. # 10:34 Other mss add in heaven,# 10:34 Mt 5:12; 1Pt 1:4–5 35So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. # 10:35 Heb 2:2; 11:26 36For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised. # 10:36 Lk 21:19; Heb 12:1

37For yet in a very little while,

the Coming One will come and not delay.

38 But my righteous one # 10:38 Other mss read the righteous one will live by faith;

and if he draws back,

I have no pleasure # 10:38 Lit my soul has no pleasurein him. # 10:37–38 Is 26:20 LXX; Hab 2:3–4,# 10:37–38 Hab 2:3–4; Lk 18:8; Rm 1:17; Gl 3:11; Rv 22:20

39But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved.

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Hebrews 10

1For the Torah, als (since) it has only a shadow of the tovot ha'atidot (good things to come) and is not the etzem (actual) things, can never by the same yearly zevakhim (sacrifices), which they offer continually, make shleimut (whole, complete) those drawing kiruv (near). 2Otherwise, would these zevakhim not have stopped being offered, because the worshipers, having experienced tohorah (purification, cleansing) even once, would no longer have had consciousness of averos? 3But by those zevakhim there is a zikaron (remembrance) and a reminder of averos year after year. 4For it is impossible for the dahm of parim (young bulls) and se'irim (goats) to take away chatta'im (sins).

5Therefore, when he comes into the Olam Hazeh, he says ZEVACH UMINCHAH LO CHAFATZTA#10:5 Ps 40:6 [7] (sacrifice and offering You did not desire), but a body you prepared for me;#10:5 Ps 39:7 in the TARGUM HA-SHIVIM 6OLAH V'CHATA'AH LO SH'ALTA#10:6 Ps 40:6 (Burnt offering and sin offering you have not desired). 7Then I said, Look, here I am, I have come — it is written about me in the megillah [scroll] LA'ASOT RETZONECHAH ELOHAI CHAFATZTI#10:7 Ps 40:8 [9] (I desire to do your will, O G-d.) 8When he said above, “ZEVACH and MINCHAH and OLAH and CHATA'AH you have not desired, nor have you taken pleasure in them” — these are offered according to the Torah 9— Then he said, I have come LA'ASOT RETZONECHAH (to do your will.) He takes away HaRishonah#10:9 the way of the zevakhim of the kehunah of Levi in order to establish HaSheniyah.#10:9 the way of the zevach of the kehunah of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach 10And it is by the ratzon Hashem that we will have been set apart for kedushah through the korban NEFESH#10:10 Isa 53:10 cf. ASHAM KORBAN of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, once and for all.

11And every kohen stands daily at his avodas kodesh sherut ministering and offering again and again the same korbanot that can never take away chatta'im; 12But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having offered up one korban for chatta'im for all time, YASHAV LIMIN HASHEM#10:12 Ps 110:1 (Sat down at the right hand of G-d), 13Waiting from that time onward until OYVAV (His enemies) be made “a footstool for his feet.” 14For by one korban he has perfected forever HaMekudashim (the ones being set apart as Kedoshim).

15And the Ruach Hakodesh also bears solemn edut to us; for after saying, 16ZOT HABRIT ASHER EKHROT (“This is the covenant that I will make) with them after those days,” says the L-rd, “I will put my Torah in the mind of them and I will inscribe it on their heart.”#10:16 Jer 31:33 He then says: 17LA'AVONAM U'LECHATTATAM LO EZKAR#10:17 Jer 31:34 (And their wickedness and their sin I will remember no more). 18Now where there is selicha (forgiveness) for these things, there is no longer a korban for chatta'im.

19Therefore, Achim b'Moshiach, having confidence for bevitachon (confidently) entering haSha'ar laHashem (gate to approach G-dʼs presence, access of the tzaddikim)#10:19 Ps 118:20 into the Kodesh HaKodashim by HaDahm HaYehoshua, 20Which he opened for us as a Derech Chadasha, a Derech Chayyah, through the parokhet, that is to say, the parokhet opened when was offered the basar of Moshiach.#10:20 Ps 16:9-10; Dan 9:26; Isa 53:5-12 21And als (since) we have a Kohen Gadol over the Beis Hashem, 22Let us approach and draw near to Hashem with a lev shalem, with full assurance and bitachon of Emunah, our levavot having been sprinkled clean (tehorim)#10:22 YAZZEH, “MOSHIACH WILL SPRINKLE,” Isa 52:15 from an evil matzpun (conscience) and our bodies plunged kluhr (pure) into a tevilah in a mikveh mayim.#10:22 Ezek 36:25-26 23Let us, without wavering, hold firmly to the hoda'ah of Tikveteinu, for Ne'eman is the One having given the havtachah (promise). 24And let us consider how to meorer (stimulate, motivate, shtarken) one another to ahavah and mitzvos, 25And let us not turn away and defect from our noiheg (habitually) conducted daily minyan, as some are doing; let us impart chizzuk (strengthening, encouragement) to one another, and by so much the more as you see the Yom#10:25 HaDin (Day of Judgment) approaching.

26For when we intentionally commit chet b'yad ramah#10:26 Num 15:30 (wilful sin with a high hand of defiance) after having received the full da'as of HaEmes, there remains no longer a korban for chattoteinu, 27But only a terrible expectation of Din and Mishpat and of a blazing EISH TZARECHA TOKHLEM#10:27 Isa 26:11 (Fire that will consume the enemies of Hashem). 28Anyone who was doiche (rejecting or setting aside) the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu, upon the dvar of SHNI EDIM O AL PI SHLOSHA EDIM#10:28 Dt 19:15 (Testimony of two or three witnesses), dies without rachamim. 29By how much worse onesh (penalty) do you think the one will be considered worthy who trampled on the Zun fun der Oybershter and also treated as mechallel kodesh (profane) the Dahm HaBrit which set him apart mekudash and also committed Chillul Hashem gidduf against the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashemʼs chesed? 30For we have da'as of the One who said, LI NAKAM V'SHILEM#10:30 Dt 32:35 (Vengeance is mine and I will repay) and again YADIN HASHEM AMMO#10:30 Dt 32:36 (The L-rd will judge his people). 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Elohim Chayyim.

32But have zikaron of the yamim mikedem (earlier days) in which, when you had received the Ohr Hashem, you endured a great tzoros, a great “Kristallnacht” of yissurim (suffering), 33sometimes being publicly abused with baleidikung (insult) and fargolgung (persecution) yourselves; other times being oppressed chavrusa partners with the ones so treated. 34For you showed Gemilut Chasadim for the Achim b'Moshiach in the beis hasohar and with simcha you accepted the pogrom-like confiscation of your property because you have da'as that you possess a better and more enduring yerushah (inheritance). 35Do not discard, then, your bitachon (confident trust) which has gadol sachar (great reward). 36You are nitzrach (needy) of the kind of savlanut (patience) that has endurance, in order that, having accomplished the ratzon Hashem, you will receive the havtachah (promise). 37For yet a little while and Hu HaBah#10:37 Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach YAVO LO YE'ACHER (He will come, he will not delay), 38V'TZADDIK VE'EMUNATO YICHEYEH#10:38 Hab 2:3-4 (And my tzaddik will live by Emunah). And, if he shrinks back as a shmad defector, LO RATZTAH NAFSHI BO (My soul has no pleasure in him). 39But we are not of those who shrink back as shmad defectors toward churban destruction, but we are of those with Emunah whose neshamah is preserved in Yeshu'at Eloheinu.

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