¹ Hence, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider° Jesus Christ, the Apostle and High-Priest of our confession,

² being faithful to the one who made$ him such, as Moses also was in his whole house. {Num 12:7}

³ For$ this one has been deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who constructed it has more honor than the house.

⁴ For$ every house is constructed by someone, but the one who constructed all things is God.

⁵ And Moses indeed was faithful in his whole house as a bondservant $for a testimony of the things which will be spoken later;

⁶ but Christ was faithful as a son, over his house, whose house we are, if indeed$ we hold-onto the boldness and the boasting of our hope steadfast till the end.

⁷ Hence, as the Holy Spirit says, ‘Today if you° hear his voice,

⁸ do not harden your° hearts, as in the rebellion, according-to the day of the testing in the wilderness,

⁹ where your° fathers tested me, they proved me, and then saw my works forty years.

¹⁰ Hence I was displeased with that generation and said, They are habitually misled in their hearts, but they themselves did not know my ways.

¹¹ As I swore in my wrath, that they would never$ be entering into my rest.’ {Num 14:22, Psa 95:7-11; the ‘never$’ is actually ‘If’, located at the beginning of the Greek sentence. This is a Hebrew idiom: "IF they had repented, they will enter... but now..." The Jews knew what they had to obey, but refused over and over again to obey it.}

¹² Beware° brethren, lest there will be an evil heart of unbelief in anyone of you°, in the withdrawing away from the living God.

¹³ But encourage° yourselves each and every day, till what is called today, in-order-that not anyone out-of you° may be hardened by the deception of sin.

¹⁴ For$ we have become companions of the Christ, if indeed$ we hold-onto the beginning of our firmness steadfast till the end,

¹⁵ while$ it was said, ‘If you° hear his voice today, do not harden your° hearts, as in the rebellion.’ {Num 14:29, Psa 95:7-11}

¹⁶ For$ some heard, and rebelled, but not all the ones who came forth out-of Egypt through Moses.

¹⁷ And with whom was he displeased for forty years? Was it not with the ones who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? {Num 14:35}

¹⁸ Now to whom had he sworn that they will not be entering into his rest, except to the ones who were disobedient?

¹⁹ And we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.