1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest (latin-pontificem) of our confession (speak the same, common confession, affirmation, profession, latin-confessionis), Jesus, 2Being faithful to the One having appointed Him, like as also Moses in the whole of His house. 3For He has been deemed worthy of greater glory than Moses, so much as He having built it has greater value (honor) than the house. 4For every house is built by someone; however He having built everything is God. 5And Moses indeed was faithful in the whole of His house, as an attendant (willing servant, greek-therapon, latin-famulus-servant) unto a testimony of the things going to be spoken; 6However, Christ as a Son upon His house, whose house are we, if indeed we should hold (retain, latin-retineamus-retain root is maintain) firm (secure, solid) our bold resolve (confidence, unreservedness in speech) and the boast of our hope until the end.

7Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you should hear His voice,

8Do not harden (dry out, become inflexible) your hearts, like as in the provocation (rebellion that irritated/embittered, latin-exacerbatione-provocation roots are exacerbation/ exasperation/ provoke/ anger) according to the day of testing in the desolate wilderness (desolate, solitary, deserted, unpopulated, uncultivated, barren),

9Where your fathers tried Me in (by) proving and saw My works for forty years.

10Therefore, I was offended (sorely angry, displeased) toward that generation and said, They always go astray (wander) in their heart and have they not known My ways;

11So I swore (took an oath) in My wrath, They will never enter into (unto) My rest.”

12Look, brothers, lest ever there be in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, in departing away (apostenai- standing away) from the living God. 13But rather entreat yourselves according to each and every day, while it is called Today, so that not one of you might be hardened by the deceitfulness (latin-fallacia-fallacy) of sin. 14For we have become partakers of Christ, if indeed we should hold (retain) firm the beginning of the assurance (legal standing/title of possession) unto the end;

15In that it is said, “Today if you should hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, like as in the provocation.”

16For some having heard provoked? But rather were not all those having come from out of Egypt through Moses? 17And with whom was He offended (angered, displeased) forty years? Was it not with those having sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did He swear that they will not enter into His rest, if not to those having refused to be persuaded? 19And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.