Hebrews

¹The point of what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty on high, ²a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has set up, and not man. ³Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is necessary that this high priest should also have something to offer. ⁴For if Jesus²¹⁷⁵ were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, because there are priests who [still] offer gifts according to the law.^{2176 5}They offer divine service²¹⁷⁷ to a copy and a shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to build the tabernacle. For God said:

Behold, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.²¹⁷⁸

⁶But now, Jesus²¹⁷⁹ has obtained a more excellent ministry as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, given as law on better promises.

Old and new covenants

⁷If that first covenant had been without fault, there would have been no place to look for a second one. ⁸But finding fault with them,²¹⁸⁰ God 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;

⁹not 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;

for they did not continue in my covenant,

and I ignored them, says the Lord.

¹⁰This 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 hearts.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

¹¹They will not [have to] teach everyone his fellow citizen,²¹⁸¹

and everyone his relative,²¹⁸² saying: ‘Know the Lord,’

for all will know me,

from their least to their greatest.

¹²For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness;

I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.²¹⁸³

¹³By speaking of a new covenant, God²¹⁸⁴ has made the first one old. And what is becoming obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

The first tabernacle

2175. Greek “he”
2176. This verse, along with verse 13, may indicate that Hebrews was written before 70 AD (but see also 9:6-9)
2177. Greek latreu,ousin
2178. Exodus 25:40
2179. Greek “he”
2180. A reference to the people of Israel or to the promises and ordinances of the Law
2181. TR reads “neighbor” instead of “fellow-citizen”
2182. Or “brother” (Greek avdelfo.n)
2183. Jeremiah 31:31-34
2184. Greek “he”