who serve the copy and shadow of the Heavenly things, as Moses was divinely admonished when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.

Pay attention! For Jehovah has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

And when all Israel saw that the king had not heeded them, the people answered the king, saying: What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now, see to your own house, O David! And Israel departed to their tents.

You have heard; see all this. And will you not declare it? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.

Do not be greatly furious, O Jehovah, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold, please look. We all are Your people.

And Jesus said to him, See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.

See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,

And I fell at his feet to do homage to him. But he said to me, Look out! No! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Do homage to God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

And he said to me, Now see here! No! For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the Words of this Book. Worship God.

Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one pays attention,

Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.

Poverty and shame shall be to him who ignores correction, but he who heeds reproof shall be honored.

He who neglects instruction despises his own soul, but he who heeds reproof gets understanding.

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear My Words. And they went after other gods, to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.

And she has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the lands that are all around her; for they have rejected My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.

But they refused to heed, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy that they might not hear.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him.

This Moses whom they rejected, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Therefore we need to more abundantly heed the things we have heard, so that they do not slip our minds.

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

Anyone who rejected Moses' Law dies without mercy before two or three witnesses.

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled on the Son of God, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of Grace?

For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you shall have destroyed all this people.

But if your heart turns away so that you will not obey, and have drawn away, and bowed down to other gods and served them,

Thus says the whole congregation of Jehovah: What treachery is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Jehovah, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel this day against Jehovah?

But if you turn back and have forsaken My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them,

For the turning away of the simple kills them, and the ease of fools destroys them.

and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths.