ABARA'YM 𐤏𐤁𐤓𐤉𐤌
HEBREWS
CHAPTER 1
1 ALUAH, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the nab’ya’ym (prophets) at many times and in many ways,
2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all, through whom also He made the ages.
3 who being the radiance of the esteem, the very image of His substance, and upholding all by the Word of His power, when He had by Himself made purification for our transgressions, sat down on the right hand of the Mighty on high,
4 having become so much better than the messengers, as He has inherited a more excellent Name than they have.
5 For to that of the messengers did He say at any time, "You are My Son. Today have I begotten you?” and again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He will be to Me a Son?"
6 And when He brings in the firstborn into the world He says, "Let all the messengers of ALUAH worship Him."
7 Of the messengers He says, "Who makes His messengers winds, and His servants a flame of fire."
8 But of the Son He says, "Your throne, O ALUAH, is forever and ever. A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your reign.
9 You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore ALUAH, Your ALUAH, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above your fellows."
10 And: "You, O Sovereign, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The shama'ym are the works of Your hands.
11 They will perish, but You remain. They all will grow old like a garment does.
12 As a mantle, You will roll them up, and they will be changed, but You are the same. Your years will not fail."
13 But which of the messengers has He told at any time: "Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies the footstool of Your feet?"
14 Are they not all serving rukh’uth, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit saving?
CHAPTER 2
1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to what we heard, lest we drift away.
2 For if the word spoken through messengers proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a right recompense,
3 How will we escape if we neglect so great a saving—which at the first having been spoken through The Sovereign, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
4 ALUAH also witnessing with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the RUKH HA'QADUSH, according to His own will?
5 For He did not subject the world to come, of which we speak, to messengers.
6 But one has somewhere witnessed saying: "What is man, that You think of him? Or the son of man, that You care for him?
7 You made him a little lower than the messengers. You crowned him with esteem and respect.
8 You have put all in subjection under his feet." For in that He subjected all to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all subjected to him.
9 But we see Him who has been made a little lower than the messengers, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA), because of the suffering of death crowned with esteem and respect, that by the favor of ALUAH He should taste of death for everyone.
10 For it became Him, for whom are all, and through whom are all, in bringing many sons to esteem, to make the author of their saving whole through sufferings.
11 For both He who makes apart and those who are made apart are all from one, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers,
12 saying, "I will declare Your Name to My brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing Your praise."
13 And again, "I will put My trust in Him." And again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom ALUAH has given Me."
14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, He also Himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death He might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
15 and release all of them who through fear of death were all their khaYah (life) subject to bondage.
16 For most certainly, He does not take hold to messengers, but He gives help to the seed of Abara'ahm.
17 Therefore He was obligated in all to be made like His brothers, that He might become a compassionate and trustworthy Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) in pertaining to ALUAH, to make atonement for the transgressions of the people.
18 For in that He Himself has suffered being tried, He is able to help those who are tried.
CHAPTER 3
1 Therefore, made apart brothers, partakers of a shama'ym calling, consider the Ambassador and Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) of our confession, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA),
2 who was trustworthy to Him who appointed Him, as also was Mashah in all his house.
3 For He has been counted worthy of more esteem than Mashah, inasmuch as He who built the house has more respect than the house.
4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all is ALUAH.
5 And Mashah indeed was trustworthy in all His house as a servant, for a witness of those which were afterward to be spoken,
6 But Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One) is trustworthy as a Son over His house, whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the esteeming of our expectation firm to the end.
7 Therefore, even as The RUKH HA'QADUSH says, "Today if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me by proving Me, and saw My works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation and said: 'They always err in their heart, but they did not know my ways,'
11 As I swore in My wrath, 'They will not enter into My rest.'"
12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of lack of trust, in falling away from The Abiding ALUAH,
13 But exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today," lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of transgression.
14 For we have become partakers of Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One), if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
15 while it is said, "Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."
16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? Was it not all those who came out of Ma'tsara'ym by Mashah?
17 With whom was He displeased forty years? Was it not with those who transgressed, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 To whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who were disobedient?
19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of lack of trust.
CHAPTER 4
1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into His rest.
2 For indeed we have had Bashar’ah (good news) preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not mixed with trust by those who heard.
3 For we who have trusted do enter into that rest, even as He has said: "As I swore in My wrath, they will not enter into My rest," although the works were completed from the foundation of the world.
4 For He has said this somewhere about the seventh day: "ALUAH rested on the seventh day from all His works,"
5 and in this place again: “If they will enter into My rest."
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the Bashar’ah (good news) was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
7 He again defines a certain day, today, saying through Dau'yad so long a time afterward, as has been said: "Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts."
8 For if 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA)* had given them rest, He would not have spoken afterward of another day.
*Some translations reference this as Yahusha, referring to Yahusha Ban Nun (Joshua)… Remember, they both have the same name in the Yahud’yath
9 So there remains therefore a Shabath for the people of ALUAH.
10 For the one who has entered into His rest has himself also rested from his works, as ALUAH did from His.
11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
12 For the Word of ALUAH is abiding, and active, and sharper than any two edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of being and rukh, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13 There is no creature that is hidden from His sight, but all are naked and laid open before the eyes of Him with whom is our account.
14 Having then a great Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest), who has passed through the shama'ym, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA), The Son OF ALUAH, let us hold tightly to our confession.
15 For we do not have a Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) not able to sympathize with weaknesses of us, but One who has been in all points tried like we are, yet without transgression.
16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of favor, that we receive compassion, and find favor for help in time of need.
CHAPTER 5
1 For every Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest), being taken from among men, is appointed for men in pertaining to ALUAH, that he should offer both gifts and offerings for transgressions.
2 Being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
3 Because of this, he must offer for transgressions for the people, as well as for himself.
4 And no one takes this respect on himself, but he is called by ALUAH, just like A'haran was.
5 So also Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One) did not extol Himself to be made a Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest), but it was He who said to Him: “You are my Son. Today I have brought Your forth.”
6 As He says also in another place, "You are a ka’ahn (priest) forever, after the order of Malak'ya Tsadaq."
7 who in the days of His flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and having been heard for His reverent fear,
8 though being a Son, He learned obedience by what He suffered.
9 And having been made whole, He became to all of those who obey him the cause of everlasting saving,
10 Called by ALUAH A Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) after the order of Malak'ya Tsadaq.
11 Concerning this we have much to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
12 For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the Words of ALUAH. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
13 For everyone who abides on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.
14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
CHAPTER 6
1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One), let us press on to completion—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of trust toward ALUAH,
2 of the teaching of immersions, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if ALUAH permits.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once lightened and tasted of the shama'ym gift, and were made partakers of The RUKH HA'QADUSH,
5 and tasted the good Word of ALUAH, and the powers of the age to come,
6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, seeing they impale the Son of ALUAH for themselves again, and put Him to open shame.
7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a Barakah from ALUAH,
8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better for you and accompanying saving, even though we speak like this.
10 For ALUAH is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love that you showed toward His Name, in that you served the made apart ones, and still do serve them.
11 And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of expectancy even to the end,
12 that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through trust and patience inherited the promises.
13 For when ALUAH made a promise to Abara'ahm, since He could swear by none greater, He swore by Himself,
14 Saying: "Surely Barakah I will Barak you, and multiplying I will multiply you."
15 And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
17 In this way ALUAH, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, interposed with an oath,
18 that by two unchangeable, in that it is impossible for ALUAH to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the expectancy placed before us.
19 That we have as an anchor of the being, both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,
20 where as a forerunner 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA) entered for us, having become a Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) forever after the order of Malak'ya Tsadaq.
CHAPTER 7
1 For this Malak'ya Tsadaq, king of Shalam, ka’ahn (priest) of ALUAH Most High, who met Abara'ahm returning from the slaughter of the kings and Baruk him,
2 to whom also Abara'ahm divided a tenth part of all: being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Shalam, which is king of shalum (peace),
3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of khaYah (life), but made like the Son of ALUAH, remains a ka’ahn (priest) continually.
4 Now consider how great this one was, to whom even Abara'ahm, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best firstfruits.
5 They indeed of the sons of Lu'ya (Loo'ya) who receive the ka’ahn (priest’s) office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Thurah, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abara'ahm,
6 but the one whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abara'ahm, and has Baruk him who has the promises.
7 But without any dispute the lesser is Baruk by the greater.
8 And here men who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is witnessed that he abides.
9 And we can say that through Abara'ahm even Lu'ya (Loo'ya), who receives tithes, has paid tithes,
10 for he was yet in the loins of his father when Malak'ya Tsadaq met him.
11 Now if there was completion through the Lu'ya (Loo'ya) ka’ahn’ah (priesthood), for under it the people have received the Thurah, what further need was there for another ka’ahn (priest) to arise after the order of Malak'ya Tsadaq, and not be called after the order of A'haran?
12 For the ka’ahn’ah (priesthood) being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the Thurah.
13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
14 For it is evident that Our Sovereign has sprung out of Yahudah, about which tribe Mashah spoke nothing concerning ka’ahn’ah (priesthood).
15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Malak'ya Tsadaq there arises another ka’ahn (priest),
16 who has been made, not after the Thurah of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless khaYah (life):
17 for it is witnessed, "You are a ka’ahn (priest) forever, according to the order of Malak'ya Tsadaq."
18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness,
19 For the Thurah completed naught, and a bringing in of a better expectation, through which we draw near to ALUAH.
20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath,
21 For they indeed have been made ka’ahn’ym (priests) without an oath, but He with an oath by Him that says of Him, "𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH) swore and will not change His mind, 'You are a ka’ahn (priest) forever, according to the order of Malak'ya Tsadaq.'"
22 By so much, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA) has become the guarantor of a better Bar'yath (covenant).
23 And indeed, those have been made ka’ahn’ym (priests), because they are hindered from continuing by death.
24 But He, because He remains forever, has His (ka’ahn’ah (priesthood) unchangeable.
25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to ALUAH through Him, seeing that He abides forever to make intercession for them.
26 For such a Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) was fitting for us: made apart, guiltless, undefiled, separated from transgressors, and made higher than the shama'ym,
27 who does not need, like those Ka'ahn’ym Ha'Gadul (High Priests), to offer up slaughterings daily, first for his own transgressions, and then for the transgressions of the people. For He did this once for all, when He offered up Himself.
28 For the Thurah appoints men as Ka'ahn’ym Ha'Gadul (High Priests) who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Thurah appoints a Son forever who has been completed.
CHAPTER 8
1 Now the chief of what we are saying is: We have such a Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest), who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Mighty in the shama'ym,
2 A servant of the made apart place, and of the true tabernacle that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH) pitched, not man.
3 For every Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) is appointed to offer both gifts and slaughterings. Therefore it is necessary that this Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) also have something to offer.
4 For indeed if He were on earth, He would not be a ka’ahn (priest), seeing there are ka’ahn’ym (priests) who offer the gifts according to the Thurah,
5 who serve a copy and shadow of the shama'ym, even as Mashah was warned by ALUAH when he was about to make the tabernacle, for He said: "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."
6 But now He has obtained a more excellent service, by so much as He is also the mediator of a better Bar'yath (covenant), which on better promises has been given as Thurah.
7 For if that first Bar'yath (covenant) had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
8 For finding fault with them, He said, "Behold, the days come," says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH), "that I will make a new Bar'yath (covenant) with the house of Yashar'AL and with the house of Yahudah,
9 not according to the Bar'yath (covenant) that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Ma'tsara'ym, for they did not continue in My Bar'yath (covenant), and I disregarded them," says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH).
10 "For this is the Bar'yath (covenant) that I will make with the house of Yashar'AL. After those days," says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH), "I will put My Thur’uth into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their ALUAH, and they will be My people.
11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother saying: 'Know 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH),' for all will know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
12 For I will be compassionate to their unrighteousness. And I will remember their transgressions and lawless deeds no more."
13 In that He says: "A new Bar'yath (covenant)," He has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
CHAPTER 9
1 Now indeed even the first Bar'yath (covenant) had ordinances of worship, and an earthly made apart place.
2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread, which is called the made apart Place.
3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the made apart of Made Aparts,
4 having a golden altar of incense, and the Ark of the Bar'yath (covenant) overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the mana, A'haran's rod that budded, and the tablets of the Bar'yath (covenant),
5 and above it karub’ym of esteem overshadowing the compassion seat, of that we cannot speak now in detail.
6 Now these having been thus prepared, the ka’ahn’ym (priests) go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
7 But into the second the Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.
8 The RUKH HA'QADUSH signifies this, that the way into the made apart Place was not yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing,
9 which is a symbol of the current age, where gifts and slaughterings are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper complete,
10 being only with meats and drinks and various washings fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
11 But Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One) having come as a Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) of the coming good, through the greater and more whole tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, entered in once for all into the Made Apart Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, makes apart to the cleanness of the flesh:
14 how much more will the Blood of Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One), who through the eternal RUKH offered Himself without blemish to ALUAH, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve The Abiding ALUAH?
15 And for this reason He is the Mediator of a new Bar'yath (covenant), since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Bar'yath (covenant), that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 For where a Bar’yath (covenant), the necessity for the death of him having willed to be brought forward.
17 For a Bar’yath (covenant) is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while one who made it abides.
18 Therefore even the first has not been dedicated without blood.
19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Mashah to all the people according to the Thurah, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and crimson scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the Book itself and all the people,
20 Saying: "This is the blood of the Bar'yath (covenant) that ALUAH has commanded you."
21 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service in the same way with the blood.
22 According to the Thurah, nearly all is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
23 It was necessary therefore, that the patterns of the shama'ym should be cleansed with these, but the shama'ym themselves with better slaughterings than these.
24 For Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One) has not entered into a Made Apart Place made with hands, that are patterns of the true, but into shama'ym itself, now to appear to the face of ALUAH for us,
25 nor yet that He should offer Himself often, as the Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) enters into the made apart place year by year with blood not his own,
26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, He has been revealed to put away transgression by the offering of Himself.
27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
28 so Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One) also, having been offered once to bear the transgressions of many, will appear a second time, without transgression, to those who are eagerly waiting for Him for saving.
CHAPTER 10
1 For the Thurah, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the matters, can never with the same offerings year by year, which they offer continually, make whole those who draw near.
2 Or else would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of transgressions?
3 But in those offerings there is a yearly reminder of transgressions.
4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away transgressions.
5 Therefore when He comes into the world, He says: "Slaughtering and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for me,
6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and slaughterings for transgression.
7 Then I said: 'Behold, I have come in the scroll of the book it is written of Me to do Your will, O ALUAH.'"
8 Previously saying, “Slaughters and offerings and whole burnt offerings and slaughterings for transgression You did not desire, neither had pleasure in them,” that are offered according to the Thurah,
9 then He said: "Behold, I have come to do Your will." He takes away the first to establish the second,
10 By that desire we have been made apart through the offering of the body of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA) Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One) once for all.
11 And indeed, every ka’ahn (priest) stands day by day serving and often offering the same offerings, which can never take away transgressions,
12 But He, when he had offered one offering for transgressions forever, sat down on the right hand of ALUAH,
13 from that time waiting until His enemies are made the footstool of His feet.
14 For by one offering He has completed forever those who are being made apart.
15 The RUKH HA'QADUSH also witnesses to us, for after saying,
16 "This is the Bar'yath (covenant) that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH), 'I will put My Thur’uth on their heart, I will also write them on their mind,'" then He says,
17 "I will remember their transgressions and their iniquities no more."
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for transgression.
19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the made apart place by the blood of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA),
20 By the way that He dedicated for us, a new and abiding way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh,
21 and having a Ka’ahn Ha’Gadul (great priest) over the house of ALUAH,
22 let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of trust, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
23 let us hold fast the confession of our expectancy without wavering, for He who promised is trustworthy.
24 And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the habit of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
26 For if we transgress willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more an offering for transgressions,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire that will devour the adversaries.
28 A man who disregards the Thurah of Mashah dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of ALUAH, and has counted the blood of the Bar'yath (covenant) with that He was made apart as common, and has insulted The Rukh of favor?
30 For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to Me," says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH), "I will repay." Again, "𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH) will judge His people."
31 It is a fearsome to fall into the hands of the abiding ALUAH.
32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were lightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,
33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the shama'ym.
35 Therefore do not throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of ALUAH, you may receive the promise.
37 "In a very little while, He who comes will come, and will not wait.
38 But the righteous will abide by trust. If he shrinks back, my being has no pleasure in him."
39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have trust to the saving of the being.
CHAPTER 11
1 Now trust is assurance of what is expected, the proof of what is not seen.
2 For by this, the elders obtained witness.
3 By trust, we understand that the ages have been framed by the Word of ALUAH, so that what is seen has not been made out of what is visible.
4 By trust, Habal offered to ALUAH a more excellent slaughter than Qayan, through which he had witness given to him that he was righteous, ALUAH witnessing with respect to his gifts, and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
5 By trust, Khanuk was taken away, so that he would not see death, and he was not found, because ALUAH translated him. For he has had witness given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to ALUAH.
6 Without trust it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to ALUAH must trust that He Exists, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
7 By trust, Nakh, being warned about what was not yet seen, moved with reverent fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to trust.
8 By trust, Abara'ahm, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went.
9 By trust, he abided as a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, abiding in tents, with Ya'tsakhaq and Ya'aqab, the heirs with him of the same promise.
10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is ALUAH.
11 By trust, even Sharah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him trustworthy who had promised.
12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
13 These all died in trust, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For those who say such make it clear that they are seeking a land of their own.
15 If indeed they had been thinking of that land from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
16 But now they desire a better land, that is, a shama'ym one. Therefore ALUAH is not ashamed of them, to be called their ALUAH, for He has prepared a city for them.
17 By trust, Abara'ahm, being tested, offered up Ya'tsakhaq. And he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,
18 even he to whom it was said, "In Ya'tsakhaq will your seed be called,"
19 reckoning that ALUAH is able to raise up even from the dead. He also did receive him back from the dead, as a parable.
20 By trust, Ya'tsakhaq Baruk Ya'aqab and Ashu, even concerning what is to come.
21 By trust, Ya'aqab, when he was dying, Baruk each of the sons of Yahu'sap, and did reverence, leaning on the top of his staff.
22 By trust, Yahu'sap, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Yashar'AL, and gave instructions concerning his bones.
23 By trust, Mashah, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
24 By trust, Mashah, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Para’ah’s daughter,
25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with ALUAH's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of transgression for a time,
26 accounting the reproach of Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One) greater riches than the treasures of Ma'tsara'ym, for he looked to the reward.
27 By trust, he left Ma'tsara'ym, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.
28 By trust, he kept the Pasakh, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
29 By trust, they passed through the sea of reeds as on dry land. When the Ma'tsara'ym tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
30 By trust, the walls of Yara’yakhu fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
31 By trust, Rakhab the whore did not perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in shalum (peace).
32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gada’un (Gada’oon), Barak, Sham’shun (Sham’shoon), Ya’pathakh, also Dau'yad, and Shamu’AL, and the nab’ya’ym (prophets),
33 who, through trust subdued reigns, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their rescuing, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, and moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tried. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, ill treated,
38 of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
39 And these all, having had witness given to them through their trust, did not receive the promise,
40 ALUAH having provided what is better concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made whole.
CHAPTER 12
1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the transgression which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is placed before us,
2 Looking to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA), the Author and Completer of trust, who for the joy that was placed before Him endured the Stake, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of ALUAH.
3 For consider Him who has endured such opposition of transgressors against himself, that you do not grow weary, fainting in your beings.
4 You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against transgression,
5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, do not take lightly the chastening of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH), nor faint when you are reproved by Him,
6 For whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH) loves, He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives."
7 It is for discipline that you endure. ALUAH deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.
9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of rukh’uth and abide?
10 For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His Made Apartness.
11 And all chastening seems for the time to be not joyous but grievous, yet afterward it yields the shalum (peaceful) fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
12 Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
14 Follow after shalum (peace) with all men, and the made apartness without which no man will see The Sovereign,
15 looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the favor of ALUAH, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,
16 lest there be anyone who commits whoredom, or profane person, like Ashu, who sold his birthright for one meal.
17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the Barakah, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
19 the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,
20 for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned,"
21 and so fearful was the appearance, that Mashah said: "I am terrified and trembling."
22 But you have come to Mount Tsa'yun (Tsa'yoon), and to the city of the living ALUAH, the shama'ym Yaru’shalam, and to innumerable multitudes of messengers,
23 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in shama'ym, to ALUAH the Judge of all, to the rukh’uth of right men made whole,
24 to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA), the Mediator of a new Bar'yath (covenant), and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Habal.
25 See that you do not refuse the One who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from Him who warns from shama'ym,
26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised saying: "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the shama'ym."
27 And this: "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those that are shaken, as of that have been made, that those that are not shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, receiving a reign that cannot be shaken, let us have favor, through that we serve ALUAH acceptably, with reverence and awe,
29 For Our ALUAH is a consuming fire.
CHAPTER 13
1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained messengers without knowing it.
3 Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill treated, since you are also in the body.
4 Let marriage be held in respect among all, and let the bed be undefiled: But ALUAH will judge those who whore and adulterers.
5 Be free from the love of money, content with such as you have, for He has said, "No, I will not leave you, no, nor forsake you,”
6 So that with good courage we say, "𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YAHUAH) is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
7 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of ALUAH, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their trust.
8 The same is 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA) Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One) yesterday, today, and forever.
9 Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by favor, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
10 We have an altar from that those who serve the made apart tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the made apart place by the Ka'ahn Ha'Gadul (High Priest) as an offering for transgression, are burned outside of the camp.
12 Therefore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA) also, that He might make apart the people through His own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
13 Let us therefore go out to Him outside of the camp, bearing His reproach.
14 For we do not have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
15 Through Him, then, let us offer up an offering of praise to ALUAH continually, that is, the fruit of lips that proclaim thanks to His Name.
16 But do not forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such offerings ALUAH is well pleased.
17 Obey those leading you and be subject to them, for they watch on behalf of your beings, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to abide respectably in all.
19 But I strongly encourage you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
20 Now The ALUAH of shalum (peace), who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal Bar'yath (covenant), Our Sovereign 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA),
21 Make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YAHUSHA) Ha'masha'yakh (The Anointed One), to whom be the esteem forever and ever. So Be It.
22 But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
23 Know that our brother Timotheon has been released, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
24 Greet all of your leaders and all the made apart ones. Those from Italia greet you.
25 Favor be with you all. So Be It.