Discovery BoxHebrews 4:3 
Context4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” 1 And yet God’s works 2 were accomplished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 9:4
Context9:4 It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark 3 were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
Hebrews 11:12-13
Context11:12 So in fact children 4 were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand 5 on the seashore. 6 11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, 7 but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners 8 on the earth.
Hebrews 11:23
Context11:23 By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him 9 for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
1 sn A quotation from Ps 95:11.
2 tn Grk “although the works,” continuing the previous reference to God. The referent (God) is specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Grk “in which”; in the translation the referent (the ark) has been specified for clarity.
4 tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.
5 tn Grk a collective “the sand.”
6 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).
7 tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.
8 tn Or “sojourners.”
9 tn Grk “Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his parents.”
