Hebrews 8:3-13

3 For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.
4 If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law,
5 (who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told [when] about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)
6 But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.
7 For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.
8 For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda;
9 not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in [the] day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith [the] Lord.
10 Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people.
11 And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from [the] little one [among them] unto [the] great among them.
12 Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.
13 In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged [is] near disappearing.

Footnotes 11

  • [a]. See Ex. 25.40.
  • [b]. Leitourgia: see ver. 2.
  • [c]. Hostis: as Matt. 7.24, 'which is such as.'
  • [d]. That is, formally established as by a law.
  • [e]. See Jer. 31.31-34.
  • [f]. The 'and' here I take to represent the Hebrew word translated 'that' in Jer. 31.31.
  • [g]. Kainos: see ch.12.24.
  • [h]. 'As regards' indicates the object in respect of which the covenant was made.
  • [i]. I add 'in themselves,' to distinguish the word here, oida (which means consciousness in oneself), from the word translated 'know the Lord,' which is from ginosko, meaning knowledge in general.
  • [j]. Or 'in no wise.' A double negative, augmenting its force.
  • [k]. Kainos: see ch. 12.24.
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