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Therefore, even as the Ruach HaKodesh says, "Today if you will hear his voice,

while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the provocation."

To whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.

For he has said somewhere about the seventh day like this, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts."

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

for God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you shown toward his name, in that you served the holy ones, and still do serve them.

Wherein God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

for he was yet in the loins of his father when Malki-Tzedek met him.

for they indeed have been made Kohanim without an oath; but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a Kohen forever, According to the order of Malki-Tzedek'".

But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

who doesn't need, like those Kohenim Gedolim, to daily offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, Every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' For all will know me, From the least of them to the greatest of them.

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the Kohen Gadol enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

henceforth expecting until his enemies to be made the footstool of his feet.

by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;