¹لان كل رئيس كهنة مأخوذ من الناس يقام لاجل الناس في ما للّه لكي يقدم قرابين وذبائح عن الخطايا

¹For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

²قادرا ان يترفق بالجهال والضالين اذ هو ايضا محاط بالضعف.

²being able to exercise forbearance towards the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is clothed with infirmity;

³ولهذا الضعف يلتزم انه كما يقدم عن الخطايا لاجل الشعب هكذا ايضا لاجل نفسه.

³and, on account of this [infirmity], he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

⁴ولا يأخذ احد هذه الوظيفة بنفسه بل المدعو من الله كما هرون ايضا.

⁴And no one takes the honour to himself but [as] called by God, even as Aaron also.

⁵كذلك المسيح ايضا لم يمجد نفسه ليصير رئيس كهنة بل الذي قال له انت ابني انا اليوم ولدتك.

⁵Thus the Christ also has not glorified himself to be made a high priest; but he who had said to him, *Thou* art my Son, *I* have to-day begotten thee.

⁶كما يقول ايضا في موضع آخر انت كاهن الى الابد على رتبة ملكي صادق.

⁶Even as also in another [place] he says, *Thou* [art] a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.

⁷الذي في ايام جسده اذ قدم بصراخ شديد ودموع طلبات وتضرعات للقادر ان يخلصه من الموت وسمع له من اجل تقواه

⁷Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

⁸مع كونه ابنا تعلّم الطاعة مما تألم به

⁸though he were Son, he learned obedience from the things which he suffered;

⁹واذ كمّل صار لجميع الذين يطيعونه سبب خلاص ابدي

⁹and having been perfected, became to all them that obey him, author of eternal salvation;

¹⁰مدعوّا من الله رئيس كهنة على رتبة ملكي صادق

¹⁰addressed by God [as] high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.

¹¹الذي من جهته الكلام كثير عندنا وعسر التفسير لننطق به اذ قد صرتم متباطئي المسامع.

¹¹Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking [of it], since ye are become dull in hearing.

¹²لانكم اذ كان ينبغي ان تكونوا معلّمين لسبب طول الزمان تحتاجون ان يعلمكم احد ما هي اركان بداءة اقوال الله وصرتم محتاجين الى اللبن لا الى طعام قوي.

¹²For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that [one] should teach you what [are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, [and] not of solid food.

¹³لان كل من يتناول اللبن هو عديم الخبرة في كلام البر لانه طفل.

¹³For every one that partakes of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;

¹⁴واما الطعام القوي فللبالغين الذين بسبب التمرن قد صارت لهم الحواس مدربة على التمييز بين الخير والشر

¹⁴but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.