1 Daarom, heilige broeders, deelgenote van die hemelse roeping, let op die Apostel en Hoëpriester van ons belydenis, Christus Jesus,
2 wat getrou was aan Hom wat Hom aangestel het, net soos Moses ook in sy hele huis.
3 Want Hy is meer heerlikheid waardig geag as Moses, namate hy wat die huis gebou het, meer eer het as die huis;
4 want elke huis word deur iemand gebou, maar Hy wat alle dinge gebou het, is God.
5 En Moses was wel getrou in sy hele huis as 'n dienaar, om te getuig van wat nog gespreek sou word,
6 maar Christus as Seun oor sy huis. En ons is sy huis as ons net die vrymoedigheid en die roem van die hoop tot die einde toe onwrikbaar vashou.
7 Daarom, soos die Heilige Gees spreek: Vandag as julle sy stem hoor,
8 verhard julle harte nie soos in die verbittering, in die dag van die versoeking in die woestyn nie,
9 waar julle vaders My versoek, My beproef het en my werke veertig jaar lank gesien het.
10 Daarom het Ek vertoornd geword op daardie geslag en gesê: Altyd dwaal hulle met die hart. Maar hulle het my weë nie leer ken nie,
11 sodat Ek in my toorn gesweer het: Hulle sal in my rus nie ingaan nie.
12 Sorg daarvoor, broeders, dat daar nie miskien in een van julle 'n bose en ongelowige hart is deurdat hy van die lewende God afvallig word nie.
13 Maar vermaan mekaar elke dag so lank as dit vandag genoem word, sodat niemand van julle deur die verleiding van die sonde verhard word nie.
14 Want ons het deelgenote van Christus geword, as ons net die begin van ons vertroue tot die einde toe onwrikbaar vashou;
15 omdat daar gesê word: Vandag as julle sy stem hoor, verhard julle harte nie soos in die verbittering nie.
16 Wie was dit dan wat gehoor het en Hom verbitter het? Was dit nie almal wat onder leiding van Moses uit Egipte gegaan het nie?
17 En op wie was Hy veertig jaar lank vertoornd? Was dit nie op die wat gesondig het, wie se lyke in die woestyn geval het nie?
18 En aan wie het Hy gesweer dat hulle in sy rus nie sal ingaan nie, behalwe aan die ongehoorsames?
19 En ons sien dat hulle deur ongeloof nie kon ingaan nie.
1 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 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.
3 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 has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.
5 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 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 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,
8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,
9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.
10 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 And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.
12 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 not able to go in because they had no belief.