Ibrani 11:17-32

11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, ¹  yet he was ready to offer up ²  his only son. 11:18 God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,” ³  11:19 and he reasoned ⁴  that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense ⁵  he received him back from there. 11:20 By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future. 11:21 By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff. ⁶  11:22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, ⁷  mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel ⁸  and gave instructions about his burial. ⁹ 

11:23 By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him ¹⁰  for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. 11:24 By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 11:25 choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure. 11:26 He regarded abuse suffered for Christ ¹¹  to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on ¹²  the reward. 11:27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible. 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, ¹³  so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them. 11:29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up. 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho ¹⁴  fell after the people marched around them ¹⁵  for seven days. 11:31 By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of ¹⁶  the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

11:32 And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

[11:17]  ¹ tn Here “received the promises” refers to the pledges themselves, not to the things God promised.

[11:17]  ² tn Grk “he was offering up.” The tense of this verb indicates the attempt or readiness to sacrifice Isaac without the actual completion of the deed.

[11:18]  ³ tn Grk “in Isaac seed will be named for you.”

[11:18]  sn A quotation from Gen 21:12.

[11:19]  ⁴ tn Grk “having reasoned,” continuing the ideas of v. 17.

[11:19]  ⁵ tn Grk “in/by a symbol.”

[11:21]  ⁶ tn Grk “worshiped on the top of his staff,” a quotation from Gen 47:31 (LXX).

[11:22]  ⁷ tn Grk “coming to an end,” “dying.”

[11:22]  ⁸ sn Joseph’s prophecy about the exodus of the sons of Israel is found in Gen 50:24.

[11:22]  ⁹ tn Grk “about his bones,” which refers by metonymy to the disposition of his bones, i.e., his burial.

[11:22]  sn The instructions about his burial are recorded in Gen 50:25.

[11:23]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his parents.”

[11:26]  ¹¹ tn Grk “the abuse [or ‘reproach’] of Christ.”

[11:26]  ¹² tn Grk “he was looking away to.”

[11:28]  ¹³ tn Grk “the pouring out of the blood.”

[11:28]  sn The sprinkling of the blood refers here to the application of the blood to the doorways of the Israelite houses (cf. Exod 12:7, 13).

[11:30]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[11:30]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “after they had been encircled.”

[11:31]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “did not perish together with.”