“What is man that you think of him 1 or the son of man that you care for him?
8:12 “For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.” 6
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” 9 (which are offered according to the law),
8:11 “And there will be no need at all 12 for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest. 13
8:9 “It will not be like the covenant 16 that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.
8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put 17 my laws in their minds 18 and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. 19
1 tn Grk “remember him.”
2 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “So” to indicate a summary or conclusion to the argument of the preceding paragraph.
3 tn Grk “for he/it is witnessed that.”
4 sn A quotation from Ps 110:4 (see Heb 5:6 and 6:20).
4 tn Grk “in Isaac seed will be named for you.”
5 sn A quotation from Jer 31:31-34.
6 tn Grk “having reasoned,” continuing the ideas of v. 17.
7 tn Grk “in/by a symbol.”
7 sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.
8 tn Or a command: “for understand that.”
9 tn Grk “it,” referring either to the repentance or the blessing. But the account in Gen 27:34-41 (which the author appeals to here) makes it clear that the blessing is what Esau sought. Thus in the translation the referent (the blessing) is specified for clarity.
9 tn Grk “they will not teach, each one his fellow citizen…” The Greek makes this negation emphatic: “they will certainly not teach.”
10 tn Grk “from the small to the great.”
10 tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.
11 tn Or “sojourners.”
11 tn Grk “not like the covenant,” continuing the description of v. 8b.
12 tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”
13 tn Grk “mind.”
14 tn Grk “I will be to them for a God and they will be to me for a people,” following the Hebrew constructions of Jer 31.