عِبرانِيّين 3

١ 1 مِنْ ثَمَّ أَيُّهَا ٱلْإِخْوَةُ ٱلْقِدِّيسُونَ، شُرَكَاءُ ٱلدَّعْوَةِ ٱلسَّمَاوِيَّةِ، لَاحِظُوا رَسُولَ ٱعْتِرَافِنَا وَرَئِيسَ كَهَنَتِهِ ٱلْمَسِيحَ يَسُوعَ،

My fellow believers, [God] has set you apart and has chosen you, just like he chose me. So consider Jesus. [He is God’s] messenger to us. He is also the Supreme Priest whom we say we believe in.

٢ 2 حَالَ كَوْنِهِ أَمِينًا لِلَّذِي أَقَامَهُ، كَمَا كَانَ مُوسَى أَيْضًا فِي كُلِّ بَيْتِهِ.

He faithfully [served God], who appointed him, just like Moses faithfully [served] God’s people [MTY].

٣ 3 فَإِنَّ هَذَا قَدْ حُسِبَ أَهْلًا لِمَجْدٍ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ مُوسَى، بِمِقْدَارِ مَا لِبَانِي ٱلْبَيْتِ مِنْ كَرَامَةٍ أَكْثَرَ مِنَ ٱلْبَيْتِ.

Just like every house is made by someone {as someone makes every house}, Jesus made everything, and he is God/Divine. So God has considered that Jesus is worthy [that people honor] him more than they honor Moses, just like the one who builds a house deserves that people honor him more than they should honor the house [he built].

٤ 4 لِأَنَّ كُلَّ بَيْتٍ يَبْنِيهِ إِنْسَانٌ مَا، وَلَكِنَّ بَانِيَ ٱلْكُلِّ هُوَ ٱللهُ.

٥ 5 وَمُوسَى كَانَ أَمِينًا فِي كُلِّ بَيْتِهِ كَخَادِمٍ، شَهَادَةً لِلْعَتِيدِ أَنْ يُتَكَلَّمَ بِهِ.

Moses very faithfully [served God as he] ([helped/cared for]) [MET] God’s people, just like a servant [faithfully serves his master]. The result was that Moses testified about what Jesus would say later.

٦ 6 وَأَمَّا ٱلْمَسِيحُ فَكَٱبْنٍ عَلَى بَيْتِهِ. وَبَيْتُهُ نَحْنُ إِنْ تَمَسَّكْنَا بِثِقَةِ ٱلرَّجَاءِ وَٱفْتِخَارِهِ ثَابِتَةً إِلَى ٱلنِّهَايَةِ.

But Christ [faithfully serves God as he] ([helps/cares for]) his own people [MTY, MET], just like a [son helps/cares for his own family]. And we are God’s people [MTY] if we continue to confidently [believe in Christ] and if we continue to confidently wait for [what God will do for us].

٧ 7 لِذَلِكَ كَمَا يَقُولُ ٱلرُّوحُ ٱلْقُدُسُ: «ٱلْيَوْمَ، إِنْ سَمِعْتُمْ صَوْتَهُ،

The Holy Spirit [caused the Psalmist to write these words in the Scriptures to the Israelites]: Now, when you [(pl)] hear God speaking to you [MTY],

٨ 8 فَلَا تُقَسُّوا قُلُوبَكُمْ، كَمَا فِي ٱلْإِسْخَاطِ، يَوْمَ ٱلتَّجْرِبَةِ فِي ٱلْقَفْرِ

do not stubbornly ([disobey/refuse to] obey [him]) [IDM], [as your Jewish ancestors stubbornly disobeyed him] when they rebelled against [him] in the desert. [At that time, God said to your ancestors], “They tried to determine how many [things that displeased me they could do] in the desert [without me punishing them].

٩ 9 حَيْثُ جَرَّبَنِي آبَاؤُكُمُ. ٱخْتَبَرُونِي وَأَبْصَرُوا أَعْمَالِي أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً.

Your ancestors repeatedly tested [whether I would be patient with them, even though] for 40 years they saw all the amazing things I did.

١٠ 10 لِذَلِكَ مَقَتُّ ذَلِكَ ٱلْجِيلَ، وَقُلْتُ: إِنَّهُمْ دَائِمًا يَضِلُّونَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَعْرِفُوا سُبُلِي.

So, I became disgusted with those people who saw those things, and I said [about them], ‘They are constantly disloyal to me, and they do not understand how I [wanted them] to conduct their lives.’

١١ 11 حَتَّى أَقْسَمْتُ فِي غَضَبِي: لَنْ يَدْخُلُوا رَاحَتِي».

As a result, because I was angry with them, I solemnly declared, ‘They will not enter [the land of Canaan] where I would let them rest [MTY]!’”

١٢ 12 اُنْظُرُوا أَيُّهَا ٱلْإِخْوَةُ، أَنْ لَا يَكُونَ فِي أَحَدِكُمْ قَلْبٌ شِرِّيرٌ بِعَدَمِ إِيمَانٍ فِي ٱلِٱرْتِدَادِ عَنِ ٱللهِ ٱلْحَيِّ.

So, my fellow believers, be careful that none of you is so evil that you stop trusting [in Christ]. That would cause you to reject God who is all-powerful.

١٣ 13 بَلْ عِظُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ، مَا دَامَ ٱلْوَقْتُ يُدْعَى ٱلْيَوْمَ، لِكَيْ لَا يُقَسَّى أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ بِغُرُورِ ٱلْخَطِيَّةِ.

Instead, each of you must encourage each other every day, while [you still have] the opportunity [IDM], in order that none of you may stubbornly [reject God] by [letting others] deceive you (OR, as you deceive yourselves), [with the result that] you [(sg)] sin [PRS].

١٤ 14 لِأَنَّنَا قَدْ صِرْنَا شُرَكَاءَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ، إِنْ تَمَسَّكْنَا بِبَدَاءَةِ ٱلثِّقَةِ ثَابِتَةً إِلَى ٱلنِّهَايَةِ،

[We must encourage one another], because we [(inc)] benefit from [all] Christ [has done] only if we firmly keep trusting [in him] from the time when we first confidently [trusted in him] until [the time when] we die [EUP].

١٥ 15 إِذْ قِيلَ: «ٱلْيَوْمَ، إِنْ سَمِعْتُمْ صَوْتَهُ، فَلَا تُقَسُّوا قُلُوبَكُمْ، كَمَا فِي ٱلْإِسْخَاطِ».

[We can do this] by paying attention to [what the Psalmist wrote in that Scripture passage in which] God said, Now, when you hear me speaking [to you(pl)] [MTY], do not stubbornly disobey me as [your ancestors stubbornly disobeyed me] when they rebelled [against me].

١٦ 16 فَمَنْ هُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ إِذْ سَمِعُوا أَسْخَطُوا؟ أَلَيْسَ جَمِيعُ ٱلَّذِينَ خَرَجُوا مِنْ مِصْرَ بِوَاسِطَةِ مُوسَى؟

([You must keep trusting in God] because you must remember who it was who rebelled against God although they heard him speaking to them./Do you remember who it was who rebelled against God although they heard [him speaking to them]?) [RHQ] It was people who had certainly experienced [LIT] God’s power. It was all those people whom Moses led miraculously out of Egypt. [RHQ]

١٧ 17 وَمَنْ مَقَتَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً؟ أَلَيْسَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَخْطَأُوا، ٱلَّذِينَ جُثَثُهُمْ سَقَطَتْ فِي ٱلْقَفْرِ؟

And ([you must remember] who it was that God was disgusted with for 40 years./do you [remember] who it was that God was disgusted with for 40years?) [RHQ] It was those same people who had sinned like that, and who as a result died in the desert! [RHQ]

١٨ 18 وَلِمَنْ أَقْسَمَ: «لَنْ يَدْخُلُوا رَاحَتَهُ»، إِلَّا لِلَّذِينَ لَمْ يُطِيعُوا؟

And ([you must remember] about whom God solemnly declared, “They will not enter the land where I would let them rest.”/do you [remember] about whom [God] solemnly declared, “They will not enter the land where I [would let them] rest”?) [RHQ] It was those Israelites who disobeyed God.

١٩ 19 فَنَرَى أَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَقْدِرُوا أَنْ يَدْخُلُوا لِعَدَمِ ٱلْإِيمَانِ.

So, from that example we [(inc)] realize that it was because they did not keep trusting [in God] that they were unable to enter [the land where they would rest].