Hebrews 1:3

1:3 The Son is ¹  the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, ²  and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. ³ 

Hebrews 2:14

2:14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in ⁴  their humanity, ⁵  so that through death he could destroy ⁶  the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),

Hebrews 2:17

2:17 Therefore he had ⁷  to be made like his brothers and sisters ⁸  in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement ⁹  for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 5:12

5:12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, ¹⁰  you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. ¹¹  You have gone back to needing ¹²  milk, not ¹³  solid food.

Hebrews 11:12

11:12 So in fact children ¹⁴  were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand ¹⁵  on the seashore. ¹⁶ 

¹ tn Grk “who being…and sustaining.” Heb 1:1-4 form one skillfully composed sentence in Greek, but it must be broken into shorter segments to correspond to contemporary English usage, which does not allow for sentences of this length and complexity.

² tn Grk “by the word of his power.”

³ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1, quoted often in Hebrews.

⁴ tn Or “partook of” (this is a different word than the one in v. 14a).

⁵ tn Grk “the same.”

⁶ tn Or “break the power of,” “reduce to nothing.”

⁷ tn Or “he was obligated.”

⁸ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

⁹ tn Or “propitiation.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “because of the time.”

¹¹ tn Grk “the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God.”

¹² tn Grk “you have come to have a need for.”

¹³ tc ‡ Most texts, including some early and important ones (א² A B* D Ψ 0122 0278 1881 Ï sy Cl), have καί (kai, “and”) immediately preceding οὐ (ou, “not”), but other equally significant witnesses (Ì⁴⁶ א* B² C 33 81 1739 lat Or Did) lack the conjunction. As it was a natural tendency for scribes to add a coordinating conjunction, the καί appears to be a motivated reading. On balance, it is probably best to regard the shorter reading as authentic. NA²⁷ has καί in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.

¹³ tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

¹⁵ sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).