Hebrews 10:8-12

10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” 1  (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” 2  He does away with 3  the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will 4  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11 And every priest stands day after day 5  serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins. 10:12 But when this priest 6  had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand 7  of God,

1 sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.

2 tc The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א2 0278vid 1739 Ï lat), have ὁ θεός (Jo qeo", “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so Ì46 א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.

3 tn Or “abolishes.”

4 tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

5 tn Or “daily,” “every day.”

6 tn Grk “this one.” This pronoun refers to Jesus, but “this priest” was used in the translation to make the contrast between the Jewish priests in v. 11 and Jesus as a priest clearer in English.

7 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1.