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OET-RV by cross-referenced section HEB 12:14

HEB 12:14–12:29 ©

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Don’t just take God’s message lightly

Heb 12:14–29

12:14 Don’t just take God’s message lightly

14Strive to live live peacefully with everyone and to distance yourselves from sin, because no one will get to see the master without doing that. 15Watch carefully to make sure that no one misses out on God’s grace, and to make sure that no bitterness grows up among you that could mess up many people’s lives,[ref] 16and watch also that none of you are sexually immoral or godless like Esau who sold his own inheritance for a single meal.[ref] 17As you all know, even afterwards when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected because he couldn’t find a way to undo what he’d done despite looking for it along with his many tears.[ref]

18You all haven’t come to what can be touched and to a blazing fire and to darkness and to gloom and to a storm (like Israelis encountered at Mt. Sinai)[ref] 19and to a trumpet blast and then God speaking a message. But when they heard him speaking, they pleaded for him not to say anything else to them, 20because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be killed.”[ref] 21Even Mosheh, when he saw how frightening everything was he said, “I’m trembling because I am afraid!”[ref]

22But in contrast, you’ve all come to the city of the living God (Mt. Tsiyyon/Zion), to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of God’s messengers to the assembly, 23and to the assembly of the eldest sons who have been registered in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the people who’ve been declared innocent and who’ve been made perfect, 24and to Yeshua, the mediator of a new agreement, and to the sprinkled blood that says even more than Abel’s blood did.[ref]

25Make sure that you all obey God who’s speaking to you, because if the ancient Jews were punished when they were warned on earth (at Mt. Sinai), how much more God will punish any of us who don’t obey what he reveals to us now (from Mt. Tsiyyon/Zion).[ref] 26When God spoke back then (from Mount Sinai), it made the earth quake. However, at this time he promises, “I’ll make the earth and also heaven quake one more time.”[ref] 27The words ‘one more time’ mean that God will take away everything that he shakes, since it was him who created all those things. So everything that he doesn’t shake and take will last forever.

28So then, since we now live in a kingdom that can’t be shaken, we should be thankful, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with awe and the deepest respect 29because ‘the God we worship is a fire that burns things up’.[ref]


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Deu 29:18 (LXX):

18[ref]


29:18: Heb 12:15.

Gen 25:29-34:

29One day, Yacob was cooking some stew when Esaw arrived home from being out, and he was very hungry 30and asked Yacob, “Can I have some of that red stuff because I’m starving.” (Esaw’s nickname became ‘Edom’, meaning ‘red’, because of that.)

31Well, today,” Yacob answered, “sell me your future inheritance.”

32“Listen, I’m dying of starvation,” said Esaw, “so what use would a future inheritance be to me?”

33Well now, make a vow to me,” insisted Yacob.[ref]

So Esaw promised him, effectively selling his future inheritance to Yacob, 34and Yacob gave him some of the lentil stew and some bread. So Esaw ate and drank and left again, thus despising his own inheritance as firstborn son.


25:33: Heb 12:16.

Gen 27:30-40:

27:30 Esaw begs for a secondary blessing

30Then just as Yitshak had finished blessing Yacob, and as Yacob had only just gone out from his father’s presence, his brother Esaw his brother returned from his hunting. 31Then he too prepared some tasty food and brought it in to his father and said, “Let my father get up and eat from the game that his son hunted so that you can bless me.”

32But Yitshak asked him, “Which son are you?”

“I’m your oldest son Esaw.” he answered.

33Then Yitshak started to trembled badly and he said, “Then who was it that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all just before you came in, and I blessed that man and indeed, he’ll be blessed.”

34When Esaw heard that, then he let out a very loud and exceedingly bitter wail, and then begged his father, “Bless me too, my father.”

35But Yitshak replied, “Your brother came in and deceived me and he’s taken your blessing!”

36Yes, his name Yacob (meaning ‘deceiver’) suits him exactly![ref] said Esaw. “First he took my inheritance and man, now he’s also taken my blessing!” Then he asked, “Haven’t you at least saved a blessing for me?”

37But Yitshak replied, “Listen, I’ve made him master over you, and I’ve given all his brothers to him as slaves. And I’ve sustained him with grain and wine. So then, what else can I do for you, my son?”

38“Did you only have one blessing that you could give, my father? Esaw asked. “Bless me too, my father!” Then Esaw sobbed loudly.[ref]

39Then his father Yitshak responded and said to him,[ref]

“Listen, you and your descendants will live

away from the most fertile land on the earth[fn]

in a place that doesn’t get dew from the sky.

40You and your descendants will live by your sword,[ref]

and you’ll serve your brother.

But when you become restless

you’ll all break away from serving them.


27:39 The Hebrew text is ambiguous here. It could mean: (1) “away from the fatness of the earth and away from the dew of the heavens from above.” or “in a place/region where the earth/land/ground is not rich/fertile and where there is very little dew/rain.” or “in a place/region where the land/soil is not good for farming and where there is not much rain.” or (2) “of the fatness of the earth and of the dew of the heavens from above.” or “in a place where the land is good/fertile for farming and where there is plenty of dew/rain.”


27:36: Gen 25:29-34.

27:38: Heb 12:17.

27:39-40: Heb 11:20.

27:40: Gen 36:8; 2Ki 8:20.

Exo 19:16-22:

16So on the morning of the third day, there was thunder and lightning and a thick cloud on the mountain, and an extremely loud horn blast, and all the people in the camp were trembling.[ref] 17Then Mosheh led the people out of the camp to go and meet God, and they stationed themselves at the foot of the mountain. 18Yahweh descended onto Mount Sinai surrounded by fire and the entire mountain smoked. Its smoke went up like the smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. 19Then it happened after the sound of the horn got extremely loud, that Mosheh was speaking and God was answering him in a voice. 20Yahweh had descended onto the top of Mt. Sinai, and he called Mosheh up to the top of the mountain, so Mosheh ascended. 21But Yahweh told him, “Go back down and warn the people in case they force their way through to look at me and many of them perish. 22Also, the priests who come nearer to me, they must be very careful to purify themselves in case I suddenly punish them.”


19:16: Rev 4:5.

20:18-21:

20:18 The people are afraid of God

(Deu. 5:22-33)

18All of the people could hear and see the thunder and the lightning, the sound of the horn, and the mountain smoking. They trembled when they saw it, and they remained standing at a distance.[ref] 19They begged Mosheh, “You be the one to speak to us, and we’ll listen, but don’t let God speak directly to us, in case we die.”

20Don’t be afraid,” Mosheh responded, “because God has come to test you so that the fear of him will remain with you so that you all won’t disobey him.” 21So the people stood at a good distance while Mosheh approached toward the thick darkness where God was.


20:18-19: Heb 12:18-19.

Deu 4:11-12:

11[ref] 12


4:11-12: Exo 19:16-18; Heb 12:18-19.

5:22-27:

22[ref]

5:22 The fear of people

(Exo. 20:18-21)

23 24 25 26 27


5:22-27: Heb 12:18-19.

Exo 19:12-13:

12Set boundaries for the people all around, and tell them, ‘Don’t climb on the mountain or touch its edge, because anyone who does will definitely be executed.[ref] 13Anyone who touches the mountain mustn’t be touched by anyone else—they must be executed by throwing rocks at them or shooting them with a bow. No person or animal who touches the mountain can stay alive.’ Only after a long trumpet blast should they start to climb the mountain.”


19:12-13: Heb 12:18-20.

Deu 9:19:

19[ref]


9:19: Heb 12:21.

Gen 4:10:

10“What have you done?” Yahweh asked. “Your brother’s blood is calling out to me from the ground.[ref]


4:10: Heb 12:24.

Exo 20:22:

20:22 Instructions about altars

22Then Yahweh told Mosheh, “This is what you need to tell the Israelis: ‘You yourselves have seen that I, Yahweh, have talked with you from heaven.

Hag 2:6 (LXX):

6because army commander Yahweh says that in a little while, I’ll shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land, once more.[ref]


2:6: Heb 12:26.

Deu 4:24:

24[ref]


4:24: Heb 12:29.