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16 that someone may not be sexually-immoral or[a] profane like Esau, who sold his own firstborn-rights[b] for one meal[c]. 17 For you know that indeed afterward, while wanting to inherit the blessing, he was rejected— for he did not find a place of [d] repentance— even-though having sought-for it[e] with tears.

For You Have Come To The City of God, The Heavenly Jerusalem

18 For you have not come-to a mountain being touched[f], and a fire having been burning, and darkness and gloom and a storm,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:16 Or, sexually-immoral, or profane like Esau (so that only ‘profane’ applies to Esau).
  2. Hebrews 12:16 That is, the status and inheritance rights of the firstborn son.
  3. Hebrews 12:16 Or, eating; one act of eating.
  4. Hebrews 12:17 That is, for.
  5. Hebrews 12:17 That is, the blessing. Or, repentance.
  6. Hebrews 12:18 That is, a physical mountain.

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