162 Grk “whose betrayers and murderers you have now become, who received the law” The two consecutive relative clauses make for awkward English style, so the second was begun as a new sentence with the pronoun “You” supplied in place of the Greek relative pronoun to make a complete sentence in English.
163 Traditionally, “as ordained by angels,” but εἰς (eis) with the accusative here should be understood as instrumental (a substitute for ἐν [en]); so εἰς 9, §206. Thus the phrase literally means “received the law by the decrees [orders] of angels” with the genitive understood as a subjective genitive, that is, the angels gave the decrees. Decrees given by angels. According to Jewish traditions in the first century, the law of Moses was mediated through angels. See also the note on “angel” in .
164 The Greek word φυλάσσω (phulassō, traditionally translated “keep”) in this context connotes preservation of and devotion to an object as well as obedience.
165 Or “did not obey it.”

In other versions

you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”

you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.”

You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”

You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, even though you received it from the hands of angels.”

you who received the law by directions of angels and have not observed it!”

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

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