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          DASV: Hebrews 8    

1 Now the main point we are saying is this: We have such a high
priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens,
2 a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle, that
the Lord set up, not man.
3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts
and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest
also have something to offer.
4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all,
since there are already those who offer the gifts according
to the law.
5 They serve in a place that is a copy and shadow of the
heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned when he was
about to complete setting up the tabernacle. For God said,
"Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern
that you were shown on the mountain."
6 But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, as he is
the mediator of a better covenant and enacted on better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then there
would be no need to seek for a second one.
8 But finding fault with them, God says,
     "Look, the days are coming, says the Lord,
     when I will make a new covenant
           with the house of Israel
           and with the house of Judah.
9 It will not be like the covenant that
           I made with their fathers in the day
     when I took them by the hand
           to lead them out of the land of Egypt,
           because they did not continue in my covenant,
                so I turned away from them, says the Lord.
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 in their minds,
           and I will write them on their hearts,
     and I will be their God,
           and they will be my people.
11 Then there will be no need for anyone to teach his neighbor
      and each one his brother,
     saying, 'Know the Lord,'
           for everyone will know me,
           from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
           and their sins I will remember no more."
13 When he talks about a "new" covenant he makes the first obsolete.
But that which is obsolete and growing old is close to vanishing away.

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