en_tn/heb/01/10.md

General Information:

This quotation comes from another Psalm.

Connecting Statement:

The author continues explaining that Jesus is superior to the angels.

In the beginning

"Before anything existed"

you laid the earth's foundation

The author speaks of God creating the earth as if he built a building on a foundation. AT: "you created the earth" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

The heavens are the work of your hands

Here "hands" refer to God's power and action. AT: "You made the heavens" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)