Discovery BoxHebrews 11:8 
Context11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
Hebrews 12:17
Context12:17 For you know that 1 later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing 2 with tears.
1 tn Or a command: “for understand that.”
2 tn Grk “it,” referring either to the repentance or the blessing. But the account in Gen 27:34-41 (which the author appeals to here) makes it clear that the blessing is what Esau sought. Thus in the translation the referent (the blessing) is specified for clarity.
