Hebrews 7:18

7:18 On the one hand a former command is set aside ¹  because it is weak and useless, ² 

Hebrews 12:20

12:20 For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.” ³ 

Hebrews 9:20

9:20 and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.” ⁴ 

Hebrews 7:5

7:5 And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office ⁵  have authorization according to the law to collect a tithe from the people, that is, from their fellow countrymen, ⁶  although they too are descendants of Abraham. ⁷ 

Hebrews 9:19

9:19 For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Hebrews 7:16

7:16 who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent ⁸  but by the power of an indestructible life.

Hebrews 11:3

11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds ⁹  were set in order at God’s command, ¹⁰  so that the visible has its origin in the invisible. ¹¹ 

Hebrews 11:22-23

11:22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, ¹²  mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel ¹³  and gave instructions about his burial. ¹⁴ 

11:23 By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him ¹⁵  for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

Hebrews 9:4

9:4 It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark ¹⁶  were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

Hebrews 11:28

11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, ¹⁷  so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

Hebrews 1:3

1:3 The Son is ¹⁸  the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, ¹⁹  and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. ²⁰ 

[7:18]  ¹ tn Grk “the setting aside of a former command comes to pass.”

[7:18]  ² tn Grk “because of its weakness and uselessness.”

[12:20]  ³ sn A quotation from Exod 19:12-13.

[9:20]  ⁵ tn Grk “which God commanded for you (or in your case).”

[7:5]  ⁷ tn Or “the priesthood.”

[7:5]  ⁸ tn Grk “from their brothers.” See BDAG 18-19 s.v. ἀδελφός 2.b.

[7:5]  ⁹ tn Grk “have come from the loins of Abraham.”

[7:16]  ⁹ tn Grk “a law of a fleshly command.”

[11:3]  ¹¹ tn Grk “ages.” The temporal (ages) came to be used of the spatial (what exists in those time periods). See Heb 1:2 for same usage.

[11:3]  ¹² tn Grk “by God’s word.”

[11:3]  ¹³ sn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that what is seen did not come into being from things that are visible.”

[11:22]  ¹³ tn Grk “coming to an end,” “dying.”

[11:22]  ¹⁴ sn Joseph’s prophecy about the exodus of the sons of Israel is found in Gen 50:24.

[11:22]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “about his bones,” which refers by metonymy to the disposition of his bones, i.e., his burial.

[11:23]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his parents.”

[9:4]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “in which”; in the translation the referent (the ark) has been specified for clarity.

[11:28]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “the pouring out of the blood.”

[1:3]  ²¹ tn Grk “who being…and sustaining.” Heb 1:1-4 form one skillfully composed sentence in Greek, but it must be broken into shorter segments to correspond to contemporary English usage, which does not allow for sentences of this length and complexity.

[1:3]  ²² tn Grk “by the word of his power.”

[1:3]  ²³ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1, quoted often in Hebrews.