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 

They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,

And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

And see to it that no one becomes ¹  an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. ² 

So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent ¹  as they perform their duties.

So in fact children ¹  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 ²  on the seashore. ³ 

But in your case, dear friends, even though we speak like this, we are convinced of better things relating to salvation.

Therefore he had ¹  to be made like his brothers and sisters ²  in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement ³  for the sins of the people.

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

“It will not be like the covenant ¹  that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up ¹  and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.

He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.

By faith he lived as a foreigner ¹  in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs ²  of the same promise.

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain, ¹ 

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, ¹  you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. ²  You have gone back to needing ³  milk, not ⁴  solid food.

On this topic we have much to say ¹  and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish ²  in hearing.

For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.

And he did not enter to offer ¹  himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls. ¹