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NOW of the things which we have spoken this
is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is
set on 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, and not
man.
3 For
every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is
of necessity that this man have somewhat also to
offer.
4 For if
he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that
offer gifts according to the law:
5 Who
serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished
of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith
he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6 But now
hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator
of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if
that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For
finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, when 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 when I took
them by the hand to lead them out of the land
of Egypt; because they continued
not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith
the Lord.
10 For
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 write them in their hearts: 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 neighbour, and
every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the
least to the greatest.
12 For I
will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities
will I remember no more.
13 In
that he saith, A new covenant,
he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth
and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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