¹ For$ every high-priest, being taken out-of men, is designated to act on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in-order-that he should offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins,

² he who is able to moderate his emotions with the ones who are ignorant and are misled, since he himself is also encompassed with weakness,

³ and because of this weakness, just-as he is obligated to offer sacrifices on behalf of sins concerning the people so also concerning himself.

⁴ And not anyone takes the honor for himself, but he who is called by God, just-as also was Aaron.

⁵ So the Christ also did not glorify himself to become a high-priest, but he who spoke to him, ‘You are my Son; I have fathered you today.’ {Psa 2:7}

⁶ Just-as he also says in a different Scripture, ‘You are a priest forever according-to the order of Melchizedek.’ {Psa 110:4}

⁷ He who, in the days of his flesh, offered up both supplications and prayers with a strong outcry and tears to the one who is able to save him from death and he was heard because of his piety.

⁸ Although being a Son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered;

⁹ and after he was completed, he became the cause of everlasting salvation to all the ones obeying$ him.

¹⁰ He was addressed by God, as high-priest according-to the order of Melchizedek.

¹¹ Concerning whom, there is much for us to say in speech (also hard to translate {i.e., simplify} ), since you° have become dull {Or: sluggish; 6:13} in the ears.

¹² For$ you° also ought to be teachers by now because of the time, but you° again have need of one to teach you°, as to what are the elemental principles of the beginning oracles of God. And you° have become ones who have a need of milk and not of solid nourishment.

¹³ For$ everyone who partakes of milk is inexperienced of the word of righteousness, for$ he is an infant.

¹⁴ But solid nourishment is for the mature ones, from the ones who, through their habit, and their senses have been exercised to the discerning of both good and evil.