To the Hebrews, 8

¹ Now as to the things being discussed this is the main point: We have such a high priest as this, and he has sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty^*1 in the heavens,

² a public servant^*1 of the holy place^*2 and of the true tent,^*3 which Jehovah^*4 put up, and not man.

³ For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; wherefore it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.

⁴ If, now, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest, there being [men] who offer the gifts according to the Law,

⁵ but which [men] are rendering sacred service in a typical representation^*1 and a shadow of the heavenly things; just as Moses, when about to make the tent in completion, was given the divine command:^*2 For says he: “See that you make all things after [their] pattern^*3 that was shown to you in the mountain.”

⁶ But now [Jesus]^*1 has obtained a more excellent public service, so that he is also the mediator of a correspondingly better covenant, which has been legally established upon better promises.

⁷ For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second;

⁸ for he does find fault with the people when he says: “‘Look! There are days coming,’ says Jehovah,^*1 ‘and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant;

⁹ not according to the covenant that I made with their forefathers in [the] day of my taking hold of their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant, so that I stopped caring for them,’ says Jehovah.”^*1

¹⁰ “‘For this is the covenant that I shall covenant with the house of Israel after those days,’ says Jehovah.^*1 ‘I will put my laws in their mind, and in their hearts I shall write them. And I will become their God, and they themselves will become my people.

¹¹ “‘And they will by no means teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying: “Know Jehovah!”^*1 For they will all know me, from [the] least one to [the] greatest one of them.

¹² For I shall be merciful to their unrighteous deeds, and I shall by no means call their sins to mind anymore.’”

¹³ In his saying “a new [covenant]” he has made the former one obsolete.^*1 Now that which is made obsolete and growing old is near to vanishing away.