¹واما الايمان فهو الثقة بما يرجى والايقان بامور لا ترى.

¹And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

²فانه في هذه شهد للقدماء.

²for in this were the elders testified of;

³بالايمان نفهم ان العالمين أتقنت بكلمة الله حتى لم يتكون ما يرى مما هو ظاهر.

³by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

⁴بالايمان قدم هابيل للّه ذبيحة افضل من قايين. فبه شهد له انه بار اذ شهد الله لقرابينه. وبه وان مات يتكلم بعد.

⁴by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

⁵بالايمان نقل اخنوخ لكي لا يرى الموت ولم يوجد لان الله نقله. اذ قبل نقله شهد له بانه قد ارضى الله.

⁵By faith Enoch was translated — not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to — that he had pleased God well,

⁶ولكن بدون ايمان لا يمكن ارضاؤه لانه يجب ان الذي يأتي الى الله يؤمن بانه موجود وانه يجازي الذين يطلبونه.

⁶and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

⁷بالايمان نوح لما أوحي اليه عن امور لم ترى بعد خاف فبنى فلكا لخلاص بيته فبه دان العالم وصار وارثا للبر الذي حسب الايمان.

⁷By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

⁸بالايمان ابراهيم لما دعي اطاع ان يخرج الى المكان الذي كان عتيدا ان يأخذه ميراثا فخرج وهو لا يعلم الى اين يأتي.

⁸By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

⁹بالايمان تغرب في ارض الموعد كانها غريبة ساكنا في خيام مع اسحق ويعقوب الوارثين معه لهذا الموعد عينه.

⁹by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,

¹⁰لانه كان ينتظر المدينة التي لها الاساسات التي صانعها وبارئها الله.

¹⁰for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor [is] God.

¹¹بالايمان سارة نفسها ايضا اخذت قدرة على انشاء نسل وبعد وقت السن ولدت اذ حسبت الذي وعد صادقا.

¹¹By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;

¹²لذلك ولد ايضا من واحد وذلك من ممات مثل نجوم السماء في الكثرة وكالرمل الذي على شاطئ البحر الذي لا يعد

¹²wherefore, also from one were begotten — and that of one who had become dead — as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that [is] by the sea-shore — the innumerable.

¹³في الايمان مات هؤلاء اجمعون وهم لم ينالوا المواعيد بل من بعيد نظروها وصدقوها وحيوها واقروا بانهم غرباء ونزلاء على الارض.

¹³In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted [them], and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

¹⁴فان الذين يقولون مثل هذا يظهرون انهم يطلبون وطنا.

¹⁴for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

¹⁵فلو ذكروا ذلك الذي خرجوا منه لكان لهم فرصة للرجوع.

¹⁵and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

¹⁶ولكن الآن يبتغون وطنا افضل اي سماويا. لذلك لا يستحي بهم الله ان يدعى الههم لانه اعدّ لهم مدينة

¹⁶but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

¹⁷بالايمان قدم ابراهيم اسحق وهو مجرب. قدم الذي قبل المواعيد وحيده

¹⁷By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

¹⁸الذي قيل له انه باسحق يدعى لك نسل.

¹⁸of whom it was said — `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;`

¹⁹اذ حسب ان الله قادر على الاقامة من الاموات ايضا الذين منهم اخذه ايضا في مثال.

¹⁹reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive [him].

²⁰بالايمان اسحق بارك يعقوب وعيسو من جهة امور عتيدة.

²⁰By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau;

²¹بالايمان يعقوب عند موته بارك كل واحد من ابني يوسف وسجد على راس عصاه.

²¹by faith Jacob dying — each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff;

²²بالايمان يوسف عند موته ذكر خروج بني اسرائيل واوصى من جهة عظامه.

²²by faith, Joseph dying, concerning the outgoing of the sons of Israel did make mention, and concerning his bones did give command.

²³بالايمان موسى بعد ما ولد اخفاه ابواه ثلاثة اشهر لانهما رأيا الصبي جميلا ولم يخشيا امر الملك.

²³By faith Moses, having been born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child comely, and were not afraid of the decree of the king;

²⁴بالايمان موسى لما كبر ابى ان يدعى ابن ابنة فرعون

²⁴by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,

²⁵مفضلا بالاحرى ان يذل مع شعب الله على ان يكون له تمتع وقتي بالخطية

²⁵having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin`s pleasure for a season,

²⁶حاسبا عار المسيح غنى اعظم من خزائن مصر لانه كان ينظر الى المجازاة.

²⁶greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

²⁷بالايمان ترك مصر غير خائف من غضب الملك لانه تشدد كانه يرى من لا يرى.

²⁷by faith he left Egypt behind, not having been afraid of the wrath of the king, for, as seeing the Invisible One — he endured;

²⁸بالايمان صنع الفصح ورشّ الدم لئلا يمسهم الذي اهلك الابكار.

²⁸by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.

²⁹بالايمان اجتازوا في البحر الاحمر كما في اليابسة الامر الذي لما شرع فيه المصريون غرقوا.

²⁹By faith they did pass through the Red Sea as through dry land, which the Egyptians having received a trial of, were swallowed up;

³⁰بالايمان سقطت اسوار اريحا بعد ما طيف حولها سبعة ايام.

³⁰by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;

³¹بالايمان راحاب الزانية لم تهلك مع العصاة اذ قبلت الجاسوسين بسلام

³¹by faith Rahab the harlot did not perish with those who disbelieved, having received the spies with peace.

³²وماذا اقول ايضا لانه يعوزني الوقت ان اخبرت عن جدعون وباراق وشمشون ويفتاح وداود وصموئيل والانبياء

³²And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,

³³الذين بالايمان قهروا ممالك صنعوا برا نالوا مواعيد سدوا افواه اسود

³³who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,

³⁴اطفأوا قوة النار نجوا من حد السيف تقووا من ضعف صاروا اشداء في الحرب هزموا جيوش غرباء.

³⁴quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.

³⁵اخذت نساء امواتهن بقيامة. وآخرون عذبوا ولم يقبلوا النجاة لكي ينالوا قيامة افضل.

³⁵Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

³⁶وآخرون تجربوا في هزء وجلد ثم في قيود ايضا وحبس.

³⁶and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

³⁷رجموا نشروا جربوا ماتوا قتلا بالسيف طافوا في جلود غنم وجلود معزى معتازين مكروبين مذلين.

³⁷they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins — being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

³⁸وهم لم يكن العالم مستحقا لهم. تائهين في براري وجبال ومغاير وشقوق الارض.

³⁸of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and [in] mountains, and [in] caves, and [in] the holes of the earth;

³⁹فهؤلاء كلهم مشهودا لهم بالايمان لم ينالوا الموعد

³⁹and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

⁴⁰اذ سبق الله فنظر لنا شيئا افضل لكي لا يكملوا بدوننا

⁴⁰God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.