^8:1 Now a summation upon the things in which are spoken is this: we have such a high-priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, ^8:2 a minister^* of the holy of holies and of the true^* tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man. ^8:3 For^* every high-priest is designated, ^*that^* he should offer both gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this one to also have something which he should offer. ^8:4 For^* if he indeed was upon the earth, he would not even be a priest, there are the priests already offering the gifts according-to the law, ^8:5 who gives-divine-service to what is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just-as Moses has been divinely-warned while being about to complete the tabernacle; for^* behold, he says, 'You will be making^* all things according-to the pattern which was shown to you in the mountain.' {Exo 25:40} ^8:6 But now he has obtained a more-excellent ministry^*, inasmuch as he is also the intermediary of a better covenant^*, which has been instituted upon better promises.

      ^8:7 For^* if that first covenant^* was blameless, then no place would have been sought for a second. ^8:8 For^* finding-fault with them, he says, ‘Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, And I will complete a new covenant^* upon the house of Israel and upon the house of Judah, ^8:9 not according-to the covenant^* which I made^* with their fathers in the day when I myself grabbed their hand to lead them forth out-of the land of Egypt, because they themselves did not remain in my covenant^* and I neglected them, says the Lord. ^8:10 Because this one is the covenant^* which I will covenant^* with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will be giving my laws into their mind and I will be writing them upon their hearts. And I will be a God to them and they themselves will be covenanted into a people for me; ^8:11 and they should never need to teach, saying, Know the Lord, to each one his fellow-citizen and each one his brother, because all will know me, from the little ones as-far-as their great ones. ^8:12 Because I will be lenient to their unrighteousnesses; I should never remember their lawlessnesses and their sins anymore.’ {Jer 31:31-34}

      ^8:13 While^* we were saying, a new covenant^*, the first has become-obsolete. But the one that becomes-obsolete and is aged is near to disappearing.