corresponding to Numbers 15:30–31. This parallels the wrong verses. Under the Old Covenant the effect of no sin offering was physical death. What is wrong with connecting verse 26b with Numbers? Hebrews 10 is under the New Covenant, where no sacrifice exists. In this context, Hebrews 10:27–29 sets the awful prospect of agonizing death in the A.D. 70 cataclysm in Jerusalem which is much worse punishment than swift death under the Mosaic Law.25 Thus, the exegetical reasoning should be: Since Hebrews