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Now a chief point [in connection] with the things said [is]: We have such a high priest who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
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minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man.
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For every high priest is constituted for the offering both gifts and sacrifices, whence necessity [is] that he also have something which he may offer.
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If then indeed he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, as there are those that offer the gifts according to law;
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being such as serve for example and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle, for, See, saith he, thou shalt make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mountain.
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But now he hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is mediator of a better covenant which hath been enacted upon better promises.
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For if that first was faultless, no place had been sought for a second.
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For finding fault he saith to them, Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, and I will make a new covenant on the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
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not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in a day when I took their hand to lead them out of Egypt’s land; because they continued not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith Jehovah.
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Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah, giving my laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.
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And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all shall inwardly know me from little of them unto great of them;
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because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember more.
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In his saying, New, he hath made the first old; but that which groweth old and aged [is] near disappearing.