Hebrews10:28
Next VerseTranslation
If someone has violated
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Paraphrase
If anyone fails to properly esteem the Law given through Moses and sets it aside, refusing to live by it, he dies; no mercy is shown him, and all it takes is the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Footnotes
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The word I have rendered as “violates,” has as its primary meaning “to set aside, or cast aside,” also “to fail to esteem.” In relation to covenants it can mean “to invalidate,” and how did a person invalidate a covenant? By violating its conditions or refusing to obey it.