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1 The main point we want to make is this: We do have this kind of chief priest. This chief priest has received the highest position, the throne of majesty in heaven. Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, Now 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 heaven,
2 He serves as priest of the holy place and of the true tent set up by the Lord and not by any human. a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.
3 Every chief priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, this chief priest had to offer something. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.
4 If he were on earth, he would not even be a priest. On earth [other] priests offer gifts by following the instructions that Moses gave. Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.
5 They serve at a place that is a pattern, a shadow, of what is in heaven. When Moses was about to make the tent, God warned him, |Be sure to make everything based on the plan I showed you on the mountain.| They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
6 Jesus has been given a priestly work that is superior to the Levitical priests' work. He also brings a better promise from God that is based on better guarantees. But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
7 If nothing had been wrong with the first promise, no one would look for another one. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.
8 But God found something wrong with his people and said to them, |The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah. For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, But God found fault with the people and said: “The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
9 It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, so I ignored them, says the Lord. not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.
10 But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
11 No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying, 'Know the Lord.' All of them from the least important to the most important will all know me And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
12 because I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold their sins against them.| For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”
13 God made this new promise and showed that the first promise was outdated. What is outdated and aging will soon disappear. In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
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