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and as a garment thou shalt fold them up, they shall be changed; but thou (shalt be) as Thou Art, and thy years shall not fail [fn]

For he who sanctified, and they who are sanctified, are all from one: wherefore he has not been ashamed to call them his brethren.

For who are they who heard and provoked him? Not all they who came out of Metsreen by the hand of Musha.

And of whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but of them who would not be persuaded?

And we see that they were not able to enter in, because they did not believe.

Therefore, because there was a place [fn] into which every one of them might have entered, and they who had it announced first did not enter in, forasmuch as they would not be persuaded;

Neither is there any creature that is concealed from before him; but every thing (is) naked and manifest before his eyes, to whom they shall give account [fn] .

But they who once unto baptism have descended [fn] , and have tasted the gift which is from heaven, and have received the Spirit of Holiness,

For they were made priests without an oath; but this [fn] with an oath: as he said unto him by the hand of David, The Lord hath sworn and will not lie, that thou art the Priest for ever in the likeness of Malki-Zedek.

There were (moreover) many [fn] priests, because they were dying, and were not permitted to remain.

5 they, (namely,) who minister [fn] at an emblem and shadow of those (things) that are in heaven. As it was said unto Musha when he made the tabernacle, See and make every thing according to the pattern which was showed to thee in the mountain.

THE NEW COVENANT: not as was that covenant which I gave to their fathers in the day that I took them by their hand, and led them from the land of Metsreen; because they did not persevere in my covenant, therefore I have neglected them, saith the Lord.

But this is the covenant that I will give to the family of the house of Israel after these days, saith the Lord: I will in-give my law in their minds, and upon their hearts will I inscribe it; and I will be to them, even I, Aloha, and they shall be unto me the people:

For this was he made the Mediator of the new covenant, that by his death he might become the ransom for those who had transgressed against the first covenant, (and) that they might receive the promise, they, who are called unto the inheritance which is eternal.

And as it is ordained to the sons of men, that they must once die, and after their death the judgment;

Now FAITH is the persuasion concerning things which are in hope, as if they were in reality [fn] , and a revelation of those which are not seen.

In faith died these all, not having gotten their promise, but from afar had beheld it, and exulted in it, and confessed that strangers they were, and sojourners in the earth.

But if that city from which they had gone out they desired, they had opportunity to return and go to it.

By faith the parents of Musha concealed him when he had been born three months, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and they feared not the edict of the king.

By faith they performed the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that he might not come near,-he, who was destroying the first-born.