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Hebrews 8

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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 ,
Now 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 ,
and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
a minister of the sanctuary , and of the true tabernacle , which the Lord pitched , not man.
And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices , it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer.
For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices : wherefore it is necessary that this `high priest' also have somewhat to offer.
Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law .
Now 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 ;
The place where they serve 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 . ”
who 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 .
Now , however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry , just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
But 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.
For if that first covenant had been without fault , no place would have been sought for a second.
For if that first ` covenant ' had been faultless , then would no place have been sought for a second.
But God found fault with the people and said: “ Behold, the days are coming , declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah .
For 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 ;
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt , because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.
Not 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.
For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord . I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people .
For 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 :
No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘ Know the Lord ,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.
And 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 .
For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more. ”
For I will be merciful to their iniquities , And their sins will I remember no more.
By speaking of a new covenant , He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear .
In 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 .

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