The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Hebrews 08
1 Now in the things which we are saying,
the main 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,
2 a servant 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
something to offer.
4 For if he were on earth, he would not be
a priest at all, seeing there are priests who
offer the gifts according to the law,
5 who serve a copy and shadow of
the heavenly things, even as Moses was
warned by God when he was about to
make the tabernacle, for he said, “See,
you shall make everything according to
the pattern that was shown to you on the
mountain.”*
6 But now he has obtained a more excellent
ministry, by as much as he is also the
mediator of a better covenant, which on
better promises has been given as law.
7 For ifthatfirst covenant had been
faultless,then no place would have beensought
for a second.
8 For finding fault with them, he said,
“Behold,† the days are coming”, 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 thatI made
with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand
to lead them out ofthe land of Egypt;
for they didn’t continue in my covenant,
and I disregarded 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;
I will also write them on their heart.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.
11 They will not teach every man his fellow
citizen‡ and every man his brother, saying,
‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me,
from their least to their greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.
I will remember their sins and lawless
deeds no more.”*
13 In that he says, “A new covenant”, he
has made the first obsolete. But that which
is becoming obsolete and grows aged is
near to vanishing away.