8:1 The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
8:2 and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
8:3 Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.
8:4 If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already men who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.
8:5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
8:6 But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises.
8:7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.
8:8 But God found fault with the people and said: “The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
8:9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
8:10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
8:11 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
8:12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
8:13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
8:1 Now in the things which are being said 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,
8:2 A Minister of the holy places, even of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
8:3 For every high priest is established for the offering of both gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary that this One also have something which He may offer.
8:4 Now then if He were on earth, He would not be a Priest at all, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law,
8:5 Who serve the example and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to complete the tabernacle; for, “See,” He said, “that you make all things according to the pattern that was shown to you in the mountain.”
8:6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry inasmuch as He is also the Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.
8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.
8:8 For finding fault with them He says, “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant upon the house of Israel and upon the house of Judah,
8:9 Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.
8:10 For this is the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will impart My laws into their mind, and on their hearts I will inscribe them; and I will be God to them, and they will be a people to Me.
8:11 And they shall by no means each teach his fellow citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all will know Me from the little one to the great one among them.
8:12 For I will be propitious to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins I shall by no means remember anymore.”
8:13 In saying, A new covenant, He has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and growing decrepit is near to disappearing.