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¹ Now in the things which we are saying the chief point [is this]: We have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,² a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.³ For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: therefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also have somewhat to offer.⁴ 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;⁵ 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, he says, that you make all things according to the pattern that was shown to you in the mount.

⁶ But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.⁷ For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.⁸ For finding fault with them, he says, Look, the days come, says the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;⁹ 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 did not continue in my covenant, And I did not regard them, says the Lord.¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also I will write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:¹¹ 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.¹² For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins I will remember no more.¹³ In that he says, A new [covenant] he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxes aged is near to vanishing away.