KJ3 Literal Translation
Hebrews 8
By the eternal priesthood of Christ the Levitical priesthood of Aaron is abolished.
1Now the main point over the things being said: We have such a High Priest, who sat down on the right of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven, Psa. 110:1
2Minister of the Holy of Holies, and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3For every high priest is set in place to offer both gifts and sacrifices; from which it is necessary for this One also to have something which He may offer.
4For if indeed He were on earth, He would not even be a priest, there being priests, the ones offering gifts according to the Law,
5who serve the pattern of and shadow of heavenly things, even as Moses was divinely warned, being about to complete the tabernacle: For "See," He says, "that you make all things according to the pattern, the one being shown to you in the mountain." Ex. 25:40
6But now He has gotten a more excellent ministry, also by so much as He is a Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
7For if that first covenant was faultless, place would not have been sought for a second.
8For finding fault, He said to them, "Behold, days come, says the Lord, and I will bequeath on the house of Israel and on the house of Judah a new covenant,
9not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day of My taking hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I cared not for them, says the Lord.
10Because this is the covenant which I will bequeath to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be for God to them, and they shall be for a people to Me.
11And they shall no more teach each one their fellow-citizen, and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know Me, from the little one of them to the great one of them.
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and I will not at all remember their sins and their lawlessnesses." LXX-Jer. 38:31-34; MT-Jer. 31:31-34
13In the saying, New, He has made the first old. And the thing being made old and growing aged is near disappearance.
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