Hebrews 2:2

2:2 For if the message spoken through angels ¹  proved to be so firm that every violation ²  or disobedience received its just penalty,

Hebrews 3:17

3:17 And against whom was God ³  provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ⁴ 

Hebrews 5:8

5:8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered. ⁵ 

Hebrews 7:20

7:20 And since ⁶  this was not done without a sworn affirmation – for the others have become priests without a sworn affirmation,

Hebrews 9:1

The Arrangement and Ritual of the Earthly Sanctuary

9:1 Now the first covenant, ⁷  in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

Hebrews 11:15

11:15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

Hebrews 11:38

11:38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

¹ sn The message spoken through angels refers to the OT law, which according to Jewish tradition was mediated to Moses through angels (cf. Deut 33:2; Ps 68:17-18; Acts 7:38, 53; Gal 3:19; and Jub. 1:27, 29; Josephus, Ant. 15.5.3 [15.136]).

² tn Grk “through angels became valid and every violation.”

³ tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

⁴ sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.

⁵ sn There is a wordplay in the Greek text between the verbs “learned” (ἔμαθεν, emaqen) and “suffered” (ἔπαθεν, epaqen).

⁷ sn The Greek text contains an elaborate comparison between v. 20a and v. 22, with a parenthesis (vv. 20b-21) in between; the comparison is literally, “by as much as…by so much” or “to the degree that…to that same degree.”

⁹ tn Grk “the first” (referring to the covenant described in Heb 8:7, 13). In the translation the referent (covenant) has been specified for clarity.