8:1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this: we have such a messenger, who was raised to honor near the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

8:2 a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which God established, not man.

8:3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this servant also have something to offer: his devoted service.

8:4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law,

8:5 The priests serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

8:6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also the bearer of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

8:7 For the people did not keep that first covenant faithfully, and so a second was promised.

8:8 For finding fault with them, he 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;

8:9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I led them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

8:10 “For 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 mind; I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

8:11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

8:13 In that He says, “A renewed covenant”, He has set aside the earlier rulings that no longer fit. But that which is passing away and grows aged is near to vanishing away.