The Scriptures 1998

Hebrews 12:13-26 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

13. and make straight paths for your feet, lest the lame be turned aside, but instead, to be healed.

14. Pursue peace with all, and pursue apartness without which no one shall see the Master.

15. See to it that no one falls short of the favour of Elohim, that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, by which many become defiled,

16. lest there be anyone who whores, or profane one, like Ěsaw, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

17. For you know that afterward, when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it with tears.

18. For you have not drawn near to a mountain touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness and storm,

19. and a sound of a trumpet, and a voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that no further Word should be spoken to them,

20. for they could not bear what was commanded, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot through with an arrow.”

21. And so fearsome was the sight that Mosheh said, “I exceedingly fear and tremble.”

22. But you have drawn near to Mount Tsiyon and to the city of the living Elohim, to the heavenly Yerushalayim, to myriads of messengers,

23. to the entire gathering and assembly of the first-born having been enrolled in heaven, and to Elohim the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

24. and to יהושע the Mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better than the blood of Heḇel.

25. Take heed not to refuse the One speaking. For if those did not escape who refused the warning on earth, much less we who turn away from Him from heaven,

26. whose voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.”