¹Nekuti mupristi mukuru umwe neumwe wakatorwa pakati pevanhu, unogadzirwa vanhu pazvinhu zvaMwari, kuti abayire zvose zvipo nezvibayiro nekuda kwezvivi;

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;

²iye une moyo munyoro pane vasingazivi naivo vakatsauka, naizvozvo naiyewo amene wakakomberedzwa neutera.

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

³Uye nekuda kwaizvozvi iye unofanira kuzvibayira pamusoro pezvivi zvake, sezvaanobayira zvevanhu.

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

⁴Hakuna munhu ungazvitorera rukudzo urwu, asi uyo wakadamwa naMwari saAroniwo.

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

⁵Saizvozvowo Kristu haana kuzvikudza iye kuva mupristi mukuru, asi uyo wakati kwaari: Ndiwe Mwanakomana wangu, nhasi ndakubereka;

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.

⁶Sezvaanorevawo pane imwe nzvimbo, achiti: Ndiwe Mupristi nekusingaperi wenhevedzo yeimba yaMerikizedheki.

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

⁷Iye pamazuva enyama yake, apa minyengetero nemikumbiro nekuchema kukuru nemisodzi kuna iye waigona kumuponesa kubva parufu, uye akanzwikwa pakuti wakatya,

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;)

⁸kunyange aiva Mwanakomana, zvakadaro wakadzidza kuteerera nekuda kwezvinhu zvaakatambudzika;

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

⁹akati aitwa wakaperedzerwa, akazova muvambi weruponeso rwusingaperi kune vose avo vanomuteerera;

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

¹⁰akaidamwa naMwari Mupristi mukuru wenhevedzo yeimba yaMerikizedheki.

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

¹¹Watine zvinhu zvizhinji zvatingataura pamusoro pake, zvinorema kududzira, zvamakagomara pakunzwa.

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

¹²Nekuti apo pamaifanira kuva vadzidzisi, nekuda kwenguva makashaiwa kuti kuve neunokudzidzisaizve kuti zviga zvekutanga zvezvimiso zvaMwari zvinyi, uye mava savanoda mukaka, kwete chikafu chikukutu.

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.

¹³Nekuti ani nani unodya mukaka haana unyanzvi mushoko rekururama, nekuti mucheche.

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

¹⁴Asi chikafu chikukutu ndechevakura zvakazara, vanokuziva kwakadzidziswa nenzira yekurovedzwa, kuzivisisa zvose zvakanaka nezvakaipa.

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