| 1: Now of the things which we have spoken this is the
sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the
throne of the Majesty in the heavens; |
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| 2: A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which
the Lord pitched, and not man. |
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| 3:
For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and
sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat
also to offer. |
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| 4: For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing
that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: |
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| 5: Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as
Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle:
for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern
shewed to thee in the mount. |
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| 6: But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how
much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established
upon better promises. |
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| 7: For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no
place have been sought for the second. |
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| 8: For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come,
saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah: |
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| 9: Not according to 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 continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them
not, saith the Lord. |
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| 10: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their
mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and
they shall be to me a people: |
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| 11: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every
man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the
least to the greatest. |
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| 12: For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their
sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. |
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| 13: In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old.
Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. |
