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Hebrews 8

ASV

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, ²a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. 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. 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; 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. 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. ⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. 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; 
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. 
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: 
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. 
12For I will be merciful to their iniquities, 
And their sins will I remember no more. 
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. 