Hebrews 1:12

1:12 and like a robe you will fold them up

and like a garment ¹  they will be changed,

but you are the same and your years will never run out.” ² 

Hebrews 2:7

2:7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while.

You crowned him with glory and honor. ³ 

Hebrews 2:13

2:13 Again he says, ⁴  “I will be confident in him,” and again, “Here I am, ⁵  with ⁶  the children God has given me.” ⁷ 

Hebrews 5:1

5:1 For every high priest is taken from among the people ⁸  and appointed ⁹  to represent them before God, ¹⁰  to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Hebrews 5:14

5:14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

Hebrews 9:12

9:12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured ¹¹  eternal redemption.

Hebrews 11:28

11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, ¹²  so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

[1:12]  ¹ tc The words “like a garment” (ὡς ἱμάτιον, Jw" Jimation) are found in excellent and early mss (Ì⁴⁶ א A B D* 1739) though absent in a majority of witnesses (D¹ Ψ 0243 0278 33 1881 Ï lat sy bo). Although it is possible that longer reading was produced by overzealous scribes who wanted to underscore the frailty of creation, it is much more likely that the shorter reading was produced by scribes who wanted to conform the wording to that of Ps 102:26 (101:27 LXX), which here lacks the second “like a garment.” Both external and internal considerations decidedly favor the longer reading, and point to the author of Hebrews as the one underscoring the difference between the Son and creation.

[1:12]  ² sn A quotation from Ps 102:25-27.

[2:7]  ³ tc Several witnesses, many of them early and important (א A C D* P Ψ 0243 0278 33 1739 1881 al lat co), have at the end of v 7, “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands.” Other mss, not quite as impressive in weight, lack the words (Ì⁴⁶ B D² Ï). In spite of the impressive external evidence for the longer reading, it is most likely a scribal addition to conform the text of Hebrews to Ps 8:6 (8:7 LXX). Conformity of a NT quotation of the OT to the LXX was a routine scribal activity, and can hardly be in doubt here as to the cause of the longer reading.

[2:13]  ⁵ tn Grk “and again,” as a continuation of the preceding.

[2:13]  ⁶ tn Grk “behold, I,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).

[2:13]  ⁷ tn Grk “and.”

[2:13]  ⁸ sn A quotation from Isa 8:17-18.

[5:1]  ⁷ tn Grk “from among men,” but since the point in context is shared humanity (rather than shared maleness), the plural Greek term ἀνθρώπων (anqrwpwn) has been translated “people.”

[5:1]  ⁸ tn Grk “who is taken from among people is appointed.”

[5:1]  ⁹ tn Grk “appointed on behalf of people in reference to things relating to God.”

[9:12]  ⁹ tn This verb occurs in the Greek middle voice, which here intensifies the role of the subject, Christ, in accomplishing the action: “he alone secured”; “he and no other secured.”

[11:28]  ¹¹ tn Grk “the pouring out of the blood.”