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¹ Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we do have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven[xr] ² and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord and not by any human.[xr] ³ For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, this high priest[fn] had to offer something too.[xr] ⁴ Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because other men offer the gifts prescribed by the law. ⁵ They serve in a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of the heavenly one. 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 that was shown you on the mountain."[fn][xr]

⁶ However, Jesus[fn] has now obtained a ministry that is as superior to theirs as the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.[xr] ⁷ For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.[xr] ⁸ But God[fn] found something wrong with his people[fn] when he said,[xr] "Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ⁹ It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the time when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant, I ignored them, declares the Lord. ¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord:[xr] 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. ¹¹ Never again will everyone teach his neighbor[xr] or his brother by saying, 'Know the Lord,' because all of them will know me, from the least important to the most important. ¹² For I will be merciful regarding their wrong deeds,[xr] and I will never again remember their sins."[fn] ¹³ In speaking of a "new" covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.[xr]