8:1Now in the
things which we are saying the chief 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,
8:2a minister of the
sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle, which the
Lord pitched, not
man.
8:3For every high priest is appointed to offer both
gifts and
sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this
high priest also have somewhat to offer.
8:4Now if he were on
earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the
gifts according to the
law;
8:5who serve
that which is a copy and shadow of the heavenly
things, even as
Moses is warned
of God when he is about to make the
tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all
things according to the
pattern that was showed thee in the mount.
8:6But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better
covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.
8:7For if that first
covenant had been faultless, then would no
place have been sought for a second.
8:8For finding fault with them, he saith,
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
8:9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt;
For they continued not in my covenant,
And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind,
And on their heart also will I write them:
And I will be to them a God,
And they shall be to me a people:
8:11And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen,
And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:
For all shall know me,
From the least to the greatest of them.
8:12For I will be merciful to their iniquities,
And their sins will I remember no more.
8:13In that he saith, A new covenant he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.
