1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We
have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. 3 For every high priest is
appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that
this high priest also have something to offer. 4 For if he were on earth,
he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts
according to the law; 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly
things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the
tabernacle, for he said, �See, you shall make everything according to the
pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.� 6 But now he has obtained
a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better
covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first
covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a
second. 8 For finding fault with them, he said,
�Behold, the days come,� says the Lord,
�That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house
of Judah;
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers,
In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of
Egypt;
For they didn�t continue in my covenant,
And I disregarded them,� says the Lord.
10 �For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel.
After those days,� says the Lord;
�I will put my laws into their mind,
I will also write them on their heart.
I will be to them a God,
And they will be to me a people.
11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen,*1
Every man his brother, saying, �Know the Lord,�
For all will know me,
From the least of them to the greatest of them.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.
I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.�
13 In that he says, �A new covenant,� he has made the first old. But that
which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
1 TR reads
�neighbor� instead of �fellow citizen�
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