1 Seepärast, pühad vennad ja õed, taevase kutsumise osasaajad, seadke oma mõtted Jeesusele, keda me tunnistame kui oma apostlit ja ülempreestrit! 2 Ta on ustav oma ametissemäärajale nagu Mooseski Jumala majapidamises. 3 Jeesus on Moosesest palju suurema austuse vääriline, nii nagu maja ehitajat austatakse enam kui maja ennast. 4 Iga maja on ju kellegi ehitatud, aga Jumal on ehitanud kõik. 5 Mooses oli ustav Jumala majapidamises kui sulane; tunnistuseks sellest, mida Jumal pidi tulevikus rääkima. 6 Kristus aga on kui ustav Poeg Jumala majapidamise üle. Tema majapidamine oleme meie, kui me peame kinni julgusest ja lootusest, millest me ka kiitleme.

7 Seepärast, nagu Püha Vaim ütleb:

„Täna, kui te kuulete tema häält,

8 ärge tehke oma südant kõvaks nii nagu vastuhaku ajal,

nõnda nagu kõrbes läbikatsumise päevil,

9 kus teie esiisad panid mind proovile,

kuigi nad nägid mu tegusid nelikümmend aastat.

10 Seepärast sain ma vihaseks selle sugupõlve peale

ja ütlesin: „Nende süda eksib üha kaugemale,

ja nad ei tunne minu teid."

11 Nii ma vandusin oma vihas:

„Iial ei saa nad minu hingamisse!" "

12 Vaadake ette, vennad ja õed, et kelleski teist ei oleks kuri uskmatu süda, mis loobub elavast Jumalast! 13 Selle asemel julgustage üksteist iga päev, niikaua kui veel öeldakse „täna", et keegi teist ei kalestuks patu petlikkuse läbi. 14 Sest meil kõigil on osa Kristusest, kui me vaid oma esimeses usus lõpuni kindlaks jääme. 15 Nii nagu äsja öeldi:

„Täna, kui te kuulete tema häält,

ärge tehke oma südant kõvaks nii nagu vastuhaku ajal!"

16 Kes siis olid need kuuljad, kes vastu hakkasid? Eks ju kõik need, kelle Mooses tõi välja Egiptusest? 17 Ja kelle peale oli ta vihane nelikümmend aastat? Eks ju nende peale, kes tegid pattu ja kelle ihud langesid kõrbes? 18 Ja kellele kinnitas Jumal vandega, et nad ei saa minna tema hingamisse, kui mitte neile, kes olid sõnakuulmatud? 19 Nii me näeme, et nad ei saanud sinna minna oma uskmatuse pärast.

1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. 5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.