Discovery BoxHebrews 10:4-19 
Context10:4 For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins. 1 10:5 So when he came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.
10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: 2 I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” 3
10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” 4 (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” 5 He does away with 6 the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will 7 we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11 And every priest stands day after day 8 serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins. 10:12 But when this priest 9 had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand 10 of God, 10:13 where he is now waiting 11 until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. 12 10:14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy. 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying, 13 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put 14 my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,” 15 10:17 then he says, 16 “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer.” 17 10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
10:19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, 18 since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
1 tn Grk “for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.”
2 tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).
3 sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”
4 sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.
5 tc The majority of
6 tn Or “abolishes.”
7 tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
8 tn Or “daily,” “every day.”
9 tn Grk “this one.” This pronoun refers to Jesus, but “this priest” was used in the translation to make the contrast between the Jewish priests in v. 11 and Jesus as a priest clearer in English.
10 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1.
11 tn Grk “from then on waiting.”
12 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1.
13 tn Grk “after having said,” emphasizing the present impact of this utterance.
14 tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”
15 sn A quotation from Jer 31:33.
16 tn Grk “and.”
17 sn A quotation from Jer 31:34.
18 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.
