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the main point of what we are saying is this: We do 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 set up, and not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; hence it was necessary for this priest to also have something to offer. 4 Now if He you were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gift according to the law. 5 These serve in a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. That is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” 6 But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
7 For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to seek for a second one. 8 But God found fault with His people, and He said,
“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
9 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their fathers
on the day when I took them by their hand
to lead them out of the land of Egypt.
Because they did not continue in My covenant,
I disregarded them,
says the Lord.
10 But 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 minds
and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
11 No longer will each person teach his neighbour,
or say to his brother, ‘Know the Lord’,
because they will all know Me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
and I will remember their sins no more.”
13 By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is growing old and ageing will soon disappear.