[1] Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a
high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat
of glory in heaven, [2] As a servant of the holy things and of the true
Tent, which was put up by God, not by man. [3] Now every high priest is
given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make
offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have
something for an offering. [4] If he had been on earth he would not have
been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the
offerings ordered by the law; [5] Being servants of that which is a copy
and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make
the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make
everything like the design which you saw in the mountain. [6] But now his
position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better
agreement with man, based on the giving of better things. [7] For if that
first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no
place for a second. [8] For, protesting against them, he says, See, the
days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah; [9] Not like the agreement which I made with
their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the
land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them
up, says the Lord. [10] For this is the agreement which I will make with
the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds,
writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my
people: [11] And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his
brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for
they will all have knowledge of me, great and small. [12] And I will have
mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind. [13]
When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But
anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
