Jeremiah 35:10

35:10 We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us. ¹ 

Genesis 25:27

25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled ²  hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents. ³ 

Leviticus 23:42-43

23:42 You must live in temporary shelters ⁴  for seven days; every native citizen in Israel must live in temporary shelters, 23:43 so that your future generations may know that I made the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”

Nehemiah 8:14-16

8:14 They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through ⁵  Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month, 8:15 and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message ⁶  in all their cities and in Jerusalem: ⁷  “Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written.”

8:16 So the people went out and brought these things ⁸  back and constructed temporary shelters for themselves, each on his roof and in his courtyard and in the courtyards of the temple ⁹  of God and in the plaza of the Water Gate and the plaza of the Ephraim Gate.

Hebrews 11:9-13

11:9 By faith he lived as a foreigner ¹⁰  in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs ¹¹  of the same promise. 11:10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, ¹²  whose architect and builder is God. 11:11 By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, ¹³  he received the ability to procreate, ¹⁴  because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy. 11:12 So in fact children ¹⁵  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 ¹⁶  on the seashore. ¹⁷  11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, ¹⁸  but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners ¹⁹  on the earth.

Hebrews 11:1

People Commended for Their Faith

11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

Hebrews 2:11

2:11 For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, ²⁰  and so ²¹  he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters, ²² 

¹ tn Heb “We have obeyed and done according to all which our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.”

² tn Heb “knowing.”

³ tn The disjunctive clause juxtaposes Jacob with Esau and draws attention to the striking contrasts. In contrast to Esau, a man of the field, Jacob was civilized, as the phrase “living in tents” signifies. Whereas Esau was a skillful hunter, Jacob was calm and even-tempered (תָּם, tam), which normally has the idea of “blameless.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the huts” (again at the end of this verse and in v. 43), perhaps referring to temporary shelters (i.e., huts) made of the foliage referred to in v. 40 (J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 389).

⁵ tn Heb “by the hand of.”

⁶ tn Heb “a voice.”

⁷ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁸ tn The words “these things” are not in the Hebrew text but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “the house.”

¹⁰ tn Or “settled as a resident alien.”

¹¹ tn Or “heirs with him.”

¹² tn Grk “that has foundations.”

¹³ tn Grk “past the time of maturity.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “power to deposit seed.” Though it is not as likely, some construe this phrase to mean “power to conceive seed,” making the whole verse about Sarah: “by faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and too old, she received ability to conceive, because she regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.”

¹⁵ tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

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

¹⁸ tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.

¹⁹ tn Or “sojourners.”

²⁰ tn Grk “are all from one.”

²¹ tn Grk “for which reason.”

²² tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited). The context here also indicates both men and women are in view; note especially the collective τὰ παιδία (ta paidia) in v. 14.