¹Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;

¹Ndugu zangu watu wa Mungu ambao mmeitwa na Mungu, fikirini juu ya Yesu ambaye Mungu alimtuma awe Kuhani Mkuu wa imani tunayoiungama.

²who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

²Yeye alikuwa mwaminifu kwa Mungu aliyemteua kufanya kazi yake kama vile Mose alivyokuwa mwaminifu katika nyumba yote ya Mungu.

³For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

³Mjenzi wa nyumba hupata heshima zaidi kuliko hiyo nyumba yenyewe. Hali kadhalika naye Yesu anastahili heshima kubwa zaidi kuliko Mose.

⁴For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

⁴Kila nyumba hujengwa na mjenzi fulani--na Mungu ndiye mjenzi wa vitu vyote.

⁵Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

⁵Mose alikuwa mwaminifu katika nyumba yote ya Bwana kama mtumishi, na alinena juu ya mambo ambayo Mungu atayasema hapo baadaye.

⁶but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

⁶Lakini Kristo ni mwaminifu kama Mwana mwenye mamlaka juu ya nyumba ya Mungu. Sisi ni nyumba yake kama tukizingatia uhodari wetu na uthabiti wetu katika kile tunachotumainia.

⁷Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

⁷Kwa hiyo, basi, kama asemavyo Roho Mtakatifu: "Kama mkisikia sauti ya Mungu leo,

⁸don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

⁸msiifanye mioyo yenu kuwa migumu kama wazee wenu walivyokuwa wakati walipomwasi Mungu; kama walivyokuwa siku ile kule jangwani,

⁹where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.

⁹Huko wazee wenu walinijaribu na kunichunguza, asema Bwana, ingawa walikuwa wameyaona matendo yangu kwa miaka arobaini.

¹⁰Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’

¹⁰Kwa sababu hiyo niliwakasirikia watu hao nikasema, Fikira za watu hawa zimepotoka, hawajapata kamwe kuzijua njia zangu.

¹¹as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’” Psalm 95:7-11

¹¹Basi, nilikasirika, nikaapa: Hawataingia huko ambako ningewapa pumziko."

¹²Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

¹²Basi ndugu, jihadharini asije akawako yeyote miongoni mwenu aliye na moyo mbaya hivyo na asiyeamini hata kujitenga na Mungu aliye hai.

¹³but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

¹³Maadamu hiyo "Leo" inayosemwa katika Maandiko bado inatuhusu sisi, mnapaswa kusaidiana daima, ili mtu yeyote miongoni mwenu asidanganywe na dhambi na kuwa mkaidi.

¹⁴For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

¹⁴Maana sisi tunashirikiana na Kristo ikiwa tutazingatia kwa uthabiti tumaini tulilokuwa nalo mwanzoni.

¹⁵while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.” Psalm 95:7-8

¹⁵Maandiko yasema hivi: "Kama mkisikia sauti ya Mungu leo, msiifanye mioyo yenu kuwa migumu kama wazee wenu walivyokuwa wakati walipomwasi Mungu."

¹⁶For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

¹⁶Ni akina nani basi, waliosikia sauti ya Mungu wakamwasi? Ni wale wote walioongozwa na Mose kutoka Misri.

¹⁷With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

¹⁷Mungu aliwakasirikia akina nani kwa miaka arobaini? Aliwakasirikia wale waliotenda dhambi, maiti zao zikatapakaa kule jangwani.

¹⁸To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

¹⁸Mungu alipoapa: "Hawataingia huko ambako ningewapa pumziko," alikuwa anawasema akina nani? Alikuwa anasema juu ya hao walioasi.

¹⁹We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

¹⁹Basi, twaona kwamba hawakuingia huko kwa sababu hawakuamini.