Hebrews 10:5–10

10:5 So when he came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am:5 I have come—it is written of me in the scroll of the book—to do your will, O God.’ ”6

10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”7 (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.”8 He does away with9 the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will10 we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

5	tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).
6	sn A quotation from Ps 40:6–8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”
7	sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5–6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.
8	tc The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א2 0278vid 1739 𝔐 lat), have ὁ θεός (ho theos, “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so 𝔓46 א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.
9	tn Or “abolishes.”
10	tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.