Leviticus 22:33

22:33 the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God. ¹  I am the Lord.”

Leviticus 25:38

25:38 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan – to be your God. ² 

Psalms 105:45

105:45 so that they might keep his commands

and obey ³  his laws.

Praise the Lord!

Jeremiah 31:31-33

31:31 “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, ⁴  “when I will make a new covenant ⁵  with the people of Israel and Judah. ⁶  31:32 It will not be like the old ⁷  covenant that I made with their ancestors ⁸  when I delivered them ⁹  from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” ¹⁰  says the Lord. ¹¹  31:33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel ¹²  after I plant them back in the land,” ¹³  says the Lord. ¹⁴  “I will ¹⁵  put my law within them ¹⁶  and write it on their hearts and minds. ¹⁷  I will be their God and they will be my people. ¹⁸ 

Jeremiah 32:37-41

32:37 ‘I will certainly regather my people from all the countries where I will have exiled ¹⁹  them in my anger, fury, and great wrath. I will bring them back to this place and allow them to live here in safety. 32:38 They will be my people, and I will be their God. ²⁰  32:39 I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for ²¹  their own good and the good of the children who descend from them. 32:40 I will make a lasting covenant ²²  with them that I will never stop doing good to them. ²³  I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that ²⁴  they will never again turn ²⁵  away from me. 32:41 I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them ²⁶  firmly in the land.’

Ezekiel 36:25-27

36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water ²⁷  and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols. 36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone ²⁸  from your body and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁹  36:27 I will put my Spirit within you; ³⁰  I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes ³¹  and carefully observe my regulations. ³² 

Hebrews 11:16

11:16 But as it is, ³³  they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

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 2:9-10

2:9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, ³⁴  now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, ³⁵  so that by God’s grace he would experience ³⁶  death on behalf of everyone. 2:10 For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, ³⁷  in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer ³⁸  of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

[22:33]  ¹ tn Heb “to be to you for God.”

[25:38]  ² tn Heb “to be to you for a God.”

[105:45]  ³ tn Heb “guard.”

[31:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:31]  ⁵ tn Or “a renewed covenant” (also in vv. 22-23).

[31:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “the house of Israel and the house of Judah.”

[31:32]  ⁷ tn The word “old” is not in the text but is implicit in the use of the word “new.” It is supplied in the translation for greater clarity.

[31:32]  ⁸ tn Heb “fathers.”

[31:32]  ⁹ tn Heb “when I took them by the hand and led them out.”

[31:32]  ¹⁰ tn Or “I was their master.” See the study note on 3:14.

[31:32]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:33]  ¹² tn Heb “with the house of Israel.” All commentators agree that the term here refers to both the whole nation which was divided into the house of Israel and the house of Judah in v. 30.

[31:33]  ¹³ tn Heb “after those days.” Commentators are generally agreed that this refers to the return from exile and the repopulation of the land referred to in vv. 27-28 and not to something subsequent to the time mentioned in v. 30. This is the sequencing that is also presupposed in other new covenant passages such as Deut 30:1-6; Ezek 11:17-20; 36:24-28.

[31:33]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:33]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “‘But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after these days:’ says the Lord, ‘I will….’” The sentence has been reworded and restructured to avoid the awkwardness of the original style.

[31:33]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in their inward parts.” The Hebrew word here refers to the seat of the thoughts, emotions, and decisions (Jer 9:8 [9:7 HT]). It is essentially synonymous with “heart” in Hebrew psychological terms.

[31:33]  ¹⁷ tn The words “and minds” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation to bring the English psychology more into line with the Hebrew where the “heart” is the center both of knowing/thinking/reflecting and deciding/willing.

[31:33]  ¹⁸ sn Compare Jer 24:7; 30:22; 31:1 and see the study note on 30:2.

[32:37]  ¹⁹ tn The verb here should be interpreted as a future perfect; though some of the people have already been exiled (in 605 and 597 b.c.), some have not yet been exiled at the time this prophesy is given (see study note on v. 1 for the date). However, contemporary English style does not regularly use the future perfect, choosing instead to use the simple future or the simple perfect as the present translation has done here.

[32:38]  ²⁰ sn The covenant formula setting forth the basic relationship is reinstituted along with a new covenant (v. 40). See also 24:7; 30:22; 31:1 and the study note on 30:22.

[32:39]  ²¹ tn Heb “I will give to them one heart and one way to [= in order that they may] fear me all the days for good to them.” The phrase “one heart” refers both to unanimity of will and accord (cf. 1 Chr 12:38 [12:39 HT]; 2 Chr 30:12) and to singleness of purpose or intent (cf. Ezek 11:19 and see BDB 525 s.v. ֵלב 4 where reference is made to “inclinations, resolutions, and determinations of the will”). The phrase “one way” refers to one way of life or conduct (cf. BDB 203 s.v. דֶּרֶךְ 6.a where reference is made to moral action and character), a way of life that is further qualified by the goal of showing “fear, reverence, respect” for the Lord. The Hebrew sentence has been broken up to avoid a long complex sentence in English which is contrary to contemporary English style. However, an attempt has been made to preserve all the connections of the original.

[32:40]  ²² tn Heb “an everlasting covenant.” For the rationale for the rendering “agreement” and the nature of the biblical covenants see the study note on 11:2.

[32:40]  ²³ tn Or “stop being gracious to them” or “stop blessing them with good”; Heb “turn back from them to do good to them.”

[32:40]  ²⁴ tn Or “I will make them want to fear and respect me so much that”; Heb “I will put the fear of me in their hearts.” However, as has been noted several times, “heart” in Hebrew is more the center of the volition (and intellect) than the center of emotions as it is in English. Both translations are intended to reflect the difference in psychology.

[32:40]  ²⁵ tn The words “never again” are not in the text but are implicit from the context and are supplied not only by this translation but by a number of others.

[32:41]  ²⁶ tn Heb “will plant them in the land with faithfulness with all my heart and with all my soul.” The latter expressions are, of course, anthropomorphisms (see Deut 6:5).

[36:25]  ²⁷ sn The Lord here uses a metaphor from the realm of ritual purification. For the use of water in ritual cleansing, see Exod 30:19-20; Lev 14:51; Num 19:18; Heb 10:22.

[36:26]  ²⁸ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is stubborn and unresponsive (see 1 Sam 25:37). In Rabbinic literature a “stone” was associated with an evil inclination (b. Sukkah 52a).

[36:26]  ²⁹ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is responsive and obedient to God.

[36:27]  ³⁰ tn Or “in the midst of you.” The word “you” is plural.

[36:27]  ³¹ tn Heb “and I will do that which in my statutes you will walk.” The awkward syntax (verb “to do, act” + accusative sign + relative clause + prepositional phrase + second person verb) is unique, though Eccl 3:14 contains a similar construction. In the last line of that verse we read that “God acts so that (relative pronoun) they fear before him.” However, unlike Ezek 36:27, the statement has no accusative sign before the relative pronoun.

[36:27]  ³² tn Heb “and my laws you will guard and you will do them.” Jer 31:31-34 is parallel to this passage.

[11:16]  ³³ tn Grk “now.”

[2:9]  ³⁴ tn Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”

[2:9]  ³⁵ tn Grk “because of the suffering of death.”

[2:9]  ³⁶ 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).

[2:10]  ³⁷ tn Grk “for whom are all things and through whom are all things.”

[2:10]  ³⁸ sn The Greek word translated pioneer is used of a “prince” or leader, the representative head of a family. It also carries nuances of “trailblazer,” one who breaks through to new ground for those who follow him. It is used some thirty-five times in the Greek OT and four times in the NT, always of Christ (Acts 3:15; 5:31; Heb 2:10; 12:2).