Hebrews 2:9

2:9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, ¹  now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, ²  so that by God’s grace he would experience ³  death on behalf of everyone.

Hebrews 11:4

11:4 By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith ⁴  he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith ⁵  he still speaks, though he is dead.

Hebrews 11:12

11:12 So in fact children ⁶  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 ⁷  on the seashore. ⁸ 

¹ tn Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”

² tn Grk “because of the suffering of death.”

³ tn Grk “would taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).

⁴ tn Or “through his sacrifice”; Grk “through which.”

⁵ tn Or “through his sacrifice”; Grk “through it.”

⁷ tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

⁸ tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

⁹ sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).