The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Therefore, brothers whom God has set apart, who share in the call from heaven, think carefully about Yeshua, whom we acknowledge publicly as God's emissary and as cohen gadol.
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For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;
2 He was faithful to God, who appointed him; just as "Moshe was faithful in all God's house."
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Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.
3 But Yeshua deserves more honor than Moshe, just as the builder of the house deserves more honor than the house.
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And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.
4 For every house is built by someone, but the one who built everything is God.
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For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.
5 Also, Moshe was faithful in all God's house, as a servant giving witness to things God would divulge later.
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And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;
6 But the Messiah, as Son, was faithful over God's house. And we are that house of his, provided we hold firmly to the courage and confidence inspired by what we hope for.
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But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.
7 Therefore, as the Ruach HaKodesh says, "Today, if you hear God's voice,
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And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,
8 don't harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel on that day in the Wilderness when you put God to the test.
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Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
9 Yes, your fathers put me to the test; they challenged me, and they saw my work for forty years!
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When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
10 Therefore, I was disgusted with that generation I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, they have not understood how I do things';
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So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;
11 in my anger, I swore that they would not enter my rest."
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And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
12 Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart lacking trust, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God!
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My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:
13 Instead, keep exhorting each other every day, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you will become hardened by the deceit of sin.
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But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
14 For we have become sharers in the Messiah, provided, however, that we hold firmly to the conviction we began with, right through until the goal is reached.
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For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
15 Now where it says, "Today, if you hear God's voice, don't harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel,"
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As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.
16 who were the people who, after they heard, quarreled so bitterly? All those whom Moshe brought out of Egypt.
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Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?
17 And with whom was God disgusted for forty years? Those who sinned - yes, they fell dead in the Wilderness!
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And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?
18 And to whom was it that he swore that they would not enter his rest? Those who were disobedient.
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And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?
19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of lack of trust.
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So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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