Chapter 1
THE ALMIGHTY, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past to the fathers by the Spokesmen of Yah,
2 Hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his Kavod, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
4 Being made so much better than the Messengers, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5 For to which of the Messengers said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the Messengers of Yah worship him.
7 And of the Messengers he saith, Who maketh his Messengers spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
8 But to the Son he saith, Thy throne, O Yah, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy Kingdom.
9 Thou has Cheseded righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore Yah, even thy Yah, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
10 And, Thou, Adonay, in the beginning has laid the foundation of the Earth; and the Heavens are the works of thine hands:
11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the Messengers said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
CHAPTER 2
THEREFORE we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by Messengers was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recomdenarii of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and was confirmed to us by them that heard him;
4 Yah also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Set-Apart Spirit, according to his own will?
5 For to the Messengers has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
7 Thou madest him a little lower than the Messengers; thou crownedst him with Kavod and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
8 Thou has put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
9 But we see Yahooshua, who was made a little lower than the Messengers for the suffering of death, crowned with Kavod and honour; that he by the Chen of Yah should taste death for every man.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to Kavod, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the assembly will I sing praise to thee.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which Yah has given me.
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For verily he took not on him the nature of Messengers; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like to his brethren, that he might be a merciful and emunahful High Priest in things pertaining to Yah, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that he himself has sufferted being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
CHAPTER 3
WHEREFORE, Set-Apart brethren, partakers of the Heavenly calling, consider the Emissary and High Priest of our profession, The Anointing of the Spirit of Yah that was upon Yahooshua;
2 Who was emunahful to him that appointed him, as also Moshe was emunahful in all his house.
3 For this man was counted worthy of more Kavod than Moshe, inasmuch as he who has builded the house has more honour than the house.
4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is Yah.
5 And Moshe verily was emunahful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.
7 Wherefore (as the Set-Apart Spirit saith, To day if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living Yah.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast to the end;
15 While it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Mitsrayim by Moshe.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
CHAPTER 4
LET us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For to us was the Good News preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with Emunah in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And Yah did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in Dawid, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Yahooshua had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of Yah.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as Yah did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of Yah is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that is passed into the Heavens, Yahooshua the Son of Yah, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of Chen, that we may obtain mercy, and find Chen to help in time of need.
CHAPTER 5
FOR every High Priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to Yah, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is called of Yah, as was Aaron.
5 So also the Anointed One of Yah Kavod not himself to be made an High Priest; but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he sufferted;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him;
10 Called of Yah an High Priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of Yah; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
CHAPTER 6
THEREFORE leaving the principles of the teaching of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of Emunah toward Yah,
2 Of the teaching of immersions, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if Yah suffer.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the Heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Set-Apart Spirit,
5 And have tasted the good word of Yah, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing they execute to themselves the Son of Yah afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7 For the Earth which drinks in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from Yah:
8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh to cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
10 For Yah is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of Chesed, which you have shewed toward his name, in that you have ministered to the Set-Apart Ones, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope to the end:
12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through Emunah and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when Yah made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17 Wherein Yah, willing more abundantly to shew to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for Yah to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Yahooshua, made an High Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
CHAPTER 7
FOR this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high Yah, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like to the Son of Yah; abideth a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our Adonay sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moshe spake nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh to Yah.
20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said to him, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
22 By so much was Yahooshua made a surety of a better testament.
23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not sufferted to continue by reason of death:
24 But this man, because he continueth ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to Yah by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
26 For such an High Priest became us, who is Set-Apart, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the Heavens;
27 Who needeth not daily, as those High Priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
28 For the law maketh men High Priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
CHAPTER 8
NOW of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an High Priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the Heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which Yah the Eternally Self-Existing pitched, and not man.
3 For every High Priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
4 For if he were on Earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5 Who serve to the example and shadow of Heavenly things, as Moshe was admonished of Yah when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’El and with the house of Yahoowdah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisra’El after those days, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a Yah, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
CHAPTER 9
THEN verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 And over it the cherubims of Kavod shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of Yah.
7 But into the second went the High Priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8 The Set-Apart Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But the Anointed One of Yah being come an High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the Set-Apart place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of the Anointed One of Yah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to Yah, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living Yah?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moshe had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which Yah has enjoined to you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the Heavens should be purified with these; but the Heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For the Anointed One of Yah is not entered into the Set-Apart places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of Yah for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the High Priest entereth into the Set-Apart place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have sufferted since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So the Anointed One of Yah was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin to salvation.
CHAPTER 10
FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body has thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou has had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O Yah.
8 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;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O Yah. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of Yah;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Set-Apart Spirit also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Yahooshua,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having an High Priest over the house of Yah;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of Emunah, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our Emunah without wavering; (for he is emunahful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke to Chesed and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moshe’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of Yah, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unSet-Apart thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of Chen?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongeth to me, I will recompense, saith Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. And again, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living Yah.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst you were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used.
34 For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recomdenarii of reward.
36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of Yah, you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by Emunah: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back to perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
CHAPTER 11
NOW Emunah is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through Emunah we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of Yah, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
4 By Emunah Heḇel offered to Yah a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, Yah testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.
5 By Emunah Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because Yah had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased Yah.
6 But without Emunah it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to Yah must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
7 By Emunah Noah, being warned of Yah of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by Emunah.
8 By Emunah Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By Emunah he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Yitshaq and Ya’aqob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is Yah.
11 Through Emunah also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him emunahful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13 These all died in Emunah, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the Earth.
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an Heavenly: wherefore Yah is not ashamed to be called their Mighty One: for he has prepared for them a city.
17 By Emunah Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Yitshaq: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18 Of whom it was said, That in Yitshaq shall thy seed be called:
19 Accounting that Yah was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
20 By Emunah Yitshaq blessed Ya’aqob and Esau concerning things to come.
21 By Emunah Ya’aqob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Yoseph; and bowed down, leaning upon the top of his staff.
22 By Emunah Yoseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Yisra’El; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
23 By Emunah Moshe, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
24 By Emunah Moshe, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of Yah, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of the Anointed One of Yah greater riches than the treasures in Mitsrayim: for he had respect to the recomdenarii of the reward.
27 By Emunah he forsook Mitsrayim, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28 Through Emunah he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
29 By Emunah they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Mitsrites assaying to do were drowned.
30 By Emunah the walls of Yeriḥo fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
31 By Emunah the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of Dawid also, and Samuel, and of the Spokesmen of Yah:
33 Who through Emunah subdued Kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the Earth.
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through Emunah, received not the promise:
40 Yah having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
CHAPTER 12
WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking to Yahooshua the author and finisher of our Emunah; who for the joy that was set before him endured the Stake, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of Yah.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom Yah the Eternally Self-Existing Chesedth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, Yah dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his Set-Apartness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and Set-Apartness, without which no man shall see Yah the Eternally Self-Existing:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the Chen of Yah; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moshe said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you are come to mount sion, and to the city of the living Mighty One, the Heavenly Yerushalayim, and to an innumerable company of Messengers,
23 To the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn, which are written in Heaven, and to Yah the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Yahooshua the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Heḇel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on Earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from Heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the Earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the Earth only, but also Heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have Chen, whereby we may serve Yah acceptably with reverence and mighty onely fear:
29 For our Mighty One is a consuming fire.
CHAPTER 13
LET brotherly Chesed continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained Messengers unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers Yah will judge.
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of Yah: whose Emunah follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange teachings. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with Chen; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the High Priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Yahooshua also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, sufferted without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to Yah continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices Yah is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now the Mighty One of peace, that brought again from the dead our Adonay Yahooshua, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah; to whom be Kavod for ever and ever. Aměn.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter to you in few words.
23 Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the Set-Apart Ones. They of Italy salute you.
25 Chen be with you all. Aměn.