The author has just written about the faith of leaders of God's people in Israel.

## Women received back their dead by resurrection ##

"Women received back people who had died when God resurrected them"  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

## Others were tortured...Others suffered mocking and whippings...They were stoned...They were sawn...They were slain ##

AT: "People tortured others"..."Others suffered when people mocked and whipped them"..."People threw stones at them"..."People sawed them"..."People killed them"  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

## tortured ##

made to suffer great pain

## not accepting their release ##

AT: "refusing to deny Christ so people would release them from prison"

## even chains and imprisonment ##

"people even put chains on them and placed them in prison"

## went about ##

"went from place to place" or "lived all the time"

## destitute ##

"needy" or "without anything" or "poor"