Ibrim

Ibr 1
The Mighty-Yoked-One, having in the past spoken to the family-strengtheners through the prophets at many times and in various ways, has at the end of these days spoken to us by his House-Continuer, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the horizons. His House-Continuer is the reflection of his esteem, the exact reproduction of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our missed-targets, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; having become so much better than the messengers, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have. For to which of the messengers did he say at any time, You are my House-Continuer. Today have I become your family-strengthener? and again, I will be to him a Family-Strengthener, and he will be to me a House-Continuer?
Again, when he brings the firstborn into the inhabited land he says, Let all the messengers of the Mighty-Yoked-One pay homage to him. Of the messengers he says, Who makes his messengers winds, and his servants a flame of fire.
But of the House-Continuer he says, Your throne, O Mighty-Yoked-One, is to the horizon of the horizons. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom. You have loved straight-pathedness, and hated iniquity; therefore the Mighty-Yoked-One, your Mighty-Yoked-One, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. And, You, Master, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the land. The skies are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does. As a mantle, you will roll them up, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years will not fail.
But which of the messengers has he told at any time, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet? Aren’t they all serving winds, sent out to do service for the sake of those who are about to inherit deliverance?
Ibr 2
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. For if the word spoken through messengers proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just repayment; how will we escape if we neglect so great a deliverance—which at the first having been spoken through the Master, was confirmed to us by those who heard; the Mighty-Yoked-One also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by bent-knee-presents of the separated wind, according to his own will? For he didn’t subject the inhabited land that is about to come, of which we speak, to messengers. But one has somewhere testified, saying, What is man, that you think of him? Or the house-continuer of man, that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the messengers. You crowned him with esteem and honor. You have put all things in subjection under his feet.
For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don’t see all things subjected to him, yet. But we see him who has been made a little lower than the messengers, Yahushuah, because of the suffering of death crowned with esteem and honor, that by the favor of the Mighty-Yoked-One he should taste of death for everyone. For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many house-builders to esteem, to make the author of their deliverance perfect through sufferings. For both he who sets apart and those who are set apart are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them male-house-protectors, saying, I will declare your name to my male-house-protectors. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise. Again, I will put my trust in him. Again, Behold, here I am with the house-builders whom the Mighty-Yoked-One has given me.
Since then the house-builders have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the slanderer, and might deliver all of them who through inward-flowing-before death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to messengers, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham. Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his male-house-protectors, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to the Mighty-Yoked-One, to make atonement for the missed-target of the people. For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
Ibr 3
Therefore, separated male-house-protectors, partakers of a calling of the sky, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Yahushuah; who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Mosheh in all his house. For he has been counted worthy of more esteem than Mosheh, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is the Mighty-Yoked-One. Mosheh indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, but Mashiyach is faithful as a House-Continuer over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the esteeming of our hope firm to the end. Therefore, even as the separated wind says, Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your inner-guides, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, where your family-strengtheners tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, They always err in their inner-guide, but they didn’t know my ways; as I swore in my wrath, They will not enter into my rest.
Beware, male-house-protectors, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an dysfunctional inner-guide of unbelief, in falling away from the filled-stomach Mighty-Yoked-One; but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called today; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of the missed-target. For we have become partakers of Mashiyach, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end: while it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your inner-guides, as in the rebellion.
For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Mitsrayim by Mosheh? With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who missed-the-target, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient? We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
Ibr 4
Let us inwardly-flow therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. For indeed we have had functional news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faithfulness by those who heard. For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest; in other words, from the works finished from the foundation of the world. For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, The Mighty-Yoked-One rested on the seventh day from all his works; and in this place again, They will not enter into my rest.
Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the functional news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience, he again defines a certain day, today, saying through Daviyd so long a time afterward (just as has been said), Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your inner-guides.
For if Yehoshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of the Mighty-Yoked-One. For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as the Mighty-Yoked-One did from his. Let us therefore hurry to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. For the word of the Mighty-Yoked-One is filled-stomach, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of breathing-throat and wind, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the inner-guide.
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. Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the skies, Yahushuah, the House-Continuer of the Mighty-Yoked-One, let us hold tightly to our confession. For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all ways tempted like we are, yet without missed-targets. Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of favor, that we may receive mercy, and may find favor for help in time of need.
Ibr 5
For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to the Mighty-Yoked-One, that he may offer both bent-knee-presents and slaughters for missed-targets. The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness. Because of this, he must offer slaughters for missed-targets for the people, as well as for himself. Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by the Mighty-Yoked-One, just like Aharon was. So also Mashiyach didn’t esteem himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, You are my House-Continuer. Today I have become your family-strengthener.
As he says also in another place, You are a priest to the horizon, after the order of Malkiytsedeq.
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to deliver him out of death, and having been heard because of his profound respect, though he was a House-Continuer, yet learned to listen by the things which he suffered. Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who listen to him the author of horizonal deliverance, named by the Mighty-Yoked-One a high priest after the order of Malkiytsedeq. About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of the Mighty-Yoked-One. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of straight-pathedness, for he is a baby. But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern between what is functional and dysfunctional.
Ibr 6
Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Mashiyach, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faithfulness toward the Mighty-Yoked-One, of the teaching of immersions, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of horizonal judgment. This will we do, if the Mighty-Yoked-One permits. For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the bent-knee-present of the sky, and were made partakers of the separated wind, and tasted the functional word of the Mighty-Yoked-One, and the powers of the horizon about to come, and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the House-Continuer of the Mighty-Yoked-One for themselves again, and put him to open shame. For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a kneeling-down-to-give from the Mighty-Yoked-One; but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany deliverance, even though we speak like this. For the Mighty-Yoked-One is not path-deserters, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the separated-ones, and still do serve them. We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faithfulness and patience inherited the promises. For when the Mighty-Yoked-One made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, saying, Surely kneeling-down-to-give I will bend-the-knee-to-give-to you, and multiplying I will multiply you. Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. In this way the Mighty-Yoked-One, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for the Mighty-Yoked-One to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the breathing-throat, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil; where as a forerunner Yahushuah entered for us, having become a high priest to the horizon after the order of Malkiytsedeq.
Ibr 7
For this Malkiytsedeq, king of Shalem, priest of the Supreme Mighty-Yoked-One, who met Abraham returning from the massacre of the kings and bent-the-knee-to-give-to him, to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of straight-pathedness, and then also king of Shalem, which is king of peace; without family-strengthener, without family-binder, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of a filled-stomach, but made like the House-Continuer of the Mighty-Yoked-One), remains a priest continually. Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils. They indeed of the house-continuers of Leviy who receive the priest’s office have a directive to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their male-house-protectors, though these have come out of the body of Abraham, but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has bent-the-knee-to-give-to him who has the promises. But without any dispute the lesser is given-to-with-bended-knee by the greater. Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives. We can say that through Abraham even Leviy, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, for he was yet in the body of his family-strengthener when Malkiytsedeq met him. Now if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Malkiytsedeq, and not be called after the order of Aharon? For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law. For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. For it is evident that our Master has sprung out of Yahudah, about which tribe Mosheh spoke nothing concerning priesthood. This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Malkiytsedeq there arises another priest, who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly directive, but after the power of an endless filled-stomach: for it is testified, You are a priest to the horizon, according to the order of Malkiytsedeq.
For there is an annulling of a foregoing directive because of its weakness and uselessness (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to the Mighty-Yoked-One. Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, The Master swore and will not change his mind, You are a priest to the horizon, according to the order of Malkiytsedeq.
By so much, Yahushuah has become the collateral of a better passing-through-the-pieces. Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death. But he, because he lives to the horizon, has his priesthood unchangeable. Therefore he is also able to deliver to the uttermost those who draw near to the Mighty-Yoked-One through him, seeing that he lives at all times to make intercession for them.
For such a high priest was fitting for us: separated, guiltless, undefiled, separated from ones who miss-the-target, and made higher than the skies; who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up slaughters daily, first for his own missed-target, and then for the missed-target of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a House-Continuer who has been perfected to the horizon.
Ibr 8
Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the skies, a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Master pitched, not man. For every high priest is appointed to offer both bent-knee-presents and slaughters. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. For if he were on land, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the bent-knee-presents according to the law; who serve a copy and shadow of the things of the sky, even as Mosheh was warned by the Mighty-Yoked-One when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain. But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better passing-through-the-pieces, which on better promises has been given as law. For if that first passing-through-the-pieces had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. For finding fault with them, he said, Behold, the days come, says the Master, that I will make a new passing-through-the-pieces with the house of Yisrael and with the house of Yahudah; not according to the passing-through-the-pieces that I made with their family-strengtheners, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Mitsrayim; for they didn’t continue in my passing-through-the-pieces, and I disregarded them, says the Master. For this is the passing-through-the-pieces that I will make with the house of Yisrael. After those days, says the Master; I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their inner-guide. I will be their Mighty-Yoked-One, and they will be my people. They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his male-house-protector, saying, Know the Master, for all will know me, from their least to their greatest. For I will be merciful to their path-desertedness. I will remember their missed-targets and lawless deeds no more.
In that he says, A new passing-through-the-pieces, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
Ibr 9
Now indeed even the first passing-through-the-pieces had ordinances of divine service, and an sanctuary of the land. For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the separated place. After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Most Separated, having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the passing-through-the-pieces overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aharon’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the passing-through-the-pieces; and above it cherubim of esteem overshadowing the atonement seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail. Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. The separated wind is indicating this, that the way into the separated place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing; which is a symbol of the present horizon, where bent-knee-presents and slaughters are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the homage-payer perfect; being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
But Mashiyach having come as a high priest of the functional things about to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the separated place, having obtained horizonal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, set apart to the cleanness of the flesh: how much more will the blood of Mashiyach, who through the horizonal wind offered himself without blemish to the Mighty-Yoked-One, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the filled-stomach Mighty-Yoked-One? For this reason he is the mediator of a new passing-through-the-pieces, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first passing-through-the-pieces, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the horizonal inheritance. For where a passing-through-the-pieces is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. For a passing-through-the-pieces is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. Therefore even the first has not been dedicated without blood. For when every directive had been spoken by Mosheh to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the passing-through-the-pieces which the Mighty-Yoked-One has directed you.
Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood. According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the skies should be cleansed with these; but the things of the sky themselves with better slaughters than these. For Mashiyach hasn’t entered into separated places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into sky itself, now to appear in the presence of the Mighty-Yoked-One for us; nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the separated place year by year with blood not his own, or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the horizons, he has been revealed to put away the missed-target by the slaughter of himself. Inasmuch as it is appointed for those men to die once, and after this, judgment, so Mashiyach also, having been offered once to bear the missed-target of many, will appear a second time, apart from the missed-target, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for deliverance.
Ibr 10
For the law, having a shadow of that which is functional about to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same slaughters year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the homage-payers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of missed-targets? But in those slaughters there is a yearly reminder of missed-targets. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away missed-targets. Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Slaughter and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me; You had no pleasure in whole ascent offerings and slaughters for the missed-target. Then I said, Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O Mighty-Yoked-One.
Previously saying, Slaughters and offerings and whole ascent offerings and slaughters for missed-targets you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them (those which are offered according to the law), then he has said, Behold, I have come to do your will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, by which will we have been set apart through the offering of the body of Yahushuah Mashiyach once for all. Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same slaughters, which can never take away missed-targets, but he, when he had offered one slaughter for missed-targets perpetually, sat down on the right hand of the Mighty-Yoked-One; from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. For by one offering he has perfected perpetually those who are being set apart. The separated wind also testifies to us, for after saying, This is the passing-through-the-pieces that I will make with them: After those days, says the Master, I will put my laws on their inner-guide, I will also write them on their mind.
Then he says, I will remember their missed-targets and their iniquities no more.
Now where remission of these is, there is no more missed-target offering. Having therefore, male-house-protectors, boldness to enter into the separated place by the blood of Yahushuah, by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and filled-stomach way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having a great priest over the house of the Mighty-Yoked-One, let’s draw near with a true inner-guide in fullness of faithfulness, having our inner-guides sprinkled from an dysfunctional conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and functional works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching. For if we miss-the-target willfully after we have received the complete knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a slaughter for missed-targets, but a certain expectation of judgment, full of inward-flow, and a fierceness of fire which is about to devour the adversaries. A man who disregards Mosheh’s law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the House-Continuer of the Mighty-Yoked-One, and has counted the blood of the passing-through-the-pieces with which he was set apart an unseparated thing, and has insulted the wind of favor? For we know him who said, Vengeance belongs to me, says the Master, I will repay. Again, The Master will judge his people. It is an thing full of inward-flow to fall into the hands of the filled-stomach Mighty-Yoked-One. But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the skies. Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. For you need endurance so that, having done the will of the Mighty-Yoked-One, you may receive the promise. In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait. But the straight-pathed will have-a-filled-stomach by faithfulness. If he shrinks back, my breathing-throat has no pleasure in him.
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faithfulness to the delivering of the breathing-throat.
Ibr 11
Now faithfulness is conviction concerning those things that are hoped for, as if it were those things in action; revelation of those things that are not seen. For by this, the men of old times obtained testimony. By faithfulness, we understand that the horizons have been framed by the word of the Mighty-Yoked-One, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are seen. By faithfulness, Hebel offered to the Mighty-Yoked-One a more excellent slaughter than Qayin, through which he had testimony given to him that he was straight-pathed, the Mighty-Yoked-One testifying with respect to his bent-knee-presents; and through it he, being dead, still speaks. By faithfulness, Chanok was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because the Mighty-Yoked-One translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to the Mighty-Yoked-One. Without faithfulness it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to the Mighty-Yoked-One must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. By faithfulness, Noach, being warned about things not yet seen, showing profound respect, prepared a ark for the delivering of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the straight-pathedness which is according to faithfulness. By faithfulness, Abraham, when he was called, listened to go out to the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went. By faithfulness, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Yitschaq and Yaaqob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is the Mighty-Yoked-One. By faithfulness, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a house-builder when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him failing in old age. These all died in faithfulness, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the land. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. But now they are seeking a better country, that is, one of the sky. Therefore the Mighty-Yoked-One is not ashamed of them, to be called their Mighty-Yoked-One, for he has prepared a city for them.
By faithfulness, Abraham, being tested, offered up Yitschaq. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only house-continuer; even he to whom it was said, In Yitschaq will your seed be called; concluding that the Mighty-Yoked-One is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead. By faithfulness, Yitschaq bent-the-knee-to-give-to Yaaqob and Esav, even concerning things about to come. By faithfulness, Yaaqob, when he was dying, bent-the-knee-to-give-to each of the house-continuers of Yehoseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. By faithfulness, Yehoseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the house-builders of Yisrael; and gave instructions concerning his bones. By faithfulness, Mosheh, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful house-builder, and they were not afraid of the king’s directive. By faithfulness, Mosheh, when he had grown up, refused to be called the house-continuer of Paroh’s daughter, choosing rather to share ill treatment with the Mighty-Yoked-One’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of missed-targets for a time; accounting the reproach of Mashiyach greater riches than the treasures of Mitsrayim; for he looked to the reward. By faithfulness, he left Mitsrayim, not inwardly-flowing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. By faithfulness, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. By faithfulness, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Mitsriy tried to do so, they were swallowed up. By faithfulness, the walls of Yeriycho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days. By faithfulness, Rachab the prostitute, didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace. What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gidon, Barak, Shimshon, Yiphtach, Daviyd, Shemuel, and the prophets; who, through faithfulness subdued kingdoms, worked out straight-pathedness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee. Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the land. These all, having had testimony given to them through their faithfulness, didn’t receive the promise, the Mighty-Yoked-One having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Ibr 12
Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the missed-target which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking to Yahushuah, the author and perfecter of faithfulness, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Mighty-Yoked-One. For consider him who has endured such contradiction of ones who miss-the-target against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your breathing-throats. You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against missed-targets; and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with house-builders, My house-continuer, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Master, nor faint when you are reproved by him; For whom the Master loves, he chastens, and scourges every house-continuer whom he receives.
It is for discipline that you endure. The Mighty-Yoked-One deals with you as with house-builders, for what house-continuer is there whom his family-strengthener doesn’t discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not house-builders. Furthermore, we had the family-strengtheners of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Family-Strengthener of winds, and have-a-filled-stomach? For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed functional to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his separateness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of straight-pathedness to those who have been exercised thereby. Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Master, guarding yourselves carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the favor of the Mighty-Yoked-One; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it; lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esav, who sold his birthright for one meal. For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the kneeling-down-to-give, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears. For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, for they could not stand that which was directed, If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned; and so full of inward-flow was the appearance, that Mosheh said, I am terrified and trembling.
But you have come to Mount Tsiyon, and to the city of the filled-stomach Mighty-Yoked-One, the Yerusalem of the sky, and to innumerable multitudes of messengers, to the general called-out-assembly and called-out-assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in the sky, to the Mighty-Yoked-One, the Judge of all, to the winds of just men made perfect, to Yahushuah, the mediator of a new passing-through-the-pieces, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Hebel.
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the land, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from the sky, whose voice shook the land then, but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I will shake not only the land, but also the skies. This phrase, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have favor, through which we serve the Mighty-Yoked-One acceptably, with reverence and awe, for our Mighty-Yoked-One is a consuming fire.
Ibr 13
Let love characteristic of male-house-protectors continue. Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained messengers without knowing it. Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but the Mighty-Yoked-One will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you. So that with functional courage we say, The Master is my helper. I will not inwardly-flow. What can man do to me?
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of the Mighty-Yoked-One, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faithfulness. Yahushuah Mashiyach is the same yesterday, today, and to the horizons. Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is functional that the inner-guide be established by favor, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
We have an altar from which those who serve the separated tabernacle have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the separated place by the high priest as a missed-target offering, are burned outside of the camp. Therefore Yahushuah also, that he might set apart the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate. Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach. For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is about to come. Through him, then, let us offer up a slaughter of praise to the Mighty-Yoked-One continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. But don’t forget to be doing what is functional and sharing, for with such slaughters the Mighty-Yoked-One is well pleased.
Be persuaded by your leaders and be yielding to them, for they watch on behalf of your breathing-throats, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a functional conscience, desiring to have-a-filled-stomach honorably in all things. I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
Now may the Mighty-Yoked-One of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of a horizonal passing-through-the-pieces, our Master Yahushuah, make you complete in every functional work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Yahushuah Mashiyach, to whom be the esteem to the horizons of the horizons. I-secure-it.
But I exhort you, male-house-protectors, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words. Know that our male-house-protector Timotheos has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you. Greet all of your leaders and all the separated-ones. The Italians greet you. Favor be with you all. I-secure-it.