Hebrews 3:17

3:17 And against whom was God ¹  provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? ² 

Hebrews 6:1

6:1 Therefore we must progress beyond ³  the elementary ⁴  instructions about Christ ⁵  and move on ⁶  to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

Hebrews 11:19

11:19 and he reasoned ⁷  that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense ⁸  he received him back from there.

Hebrews 11:35

11:35 and women received back their dead raised to life. ⁹  But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life. ¹⁰ 

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¹ tn Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

² sn An allusion to God’s judgment pronounced in Num 14:29, 32.

³ tn Grk “Therefore leaving behind.” The implication is not of abandoning this elementary information, but of building on it.

⁴ tn Or “basic.”

⁵ tn Grk “the message of the beginning of Christ.”

⁶ tn Grk “leaving behind…let us move on.”

⁷ tn Grk “having reasoned,” continuing the ideas of v. 17.

⁸ tn Grk “in/by a symbol.”

⁹ tn Grk “received back their dead from resurrection.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “to obtain a better resurrection.”