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,

² a minister$ of the holy of holies and of the true$ tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man.

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.

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,

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}

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.

⁷ For$ if that first covenant$ was blameless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

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,

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.

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;

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.

¹² Because I will be lenient to their unrighteousnesses; I should never remember their lawlessnesses and their sins anymore.’ {Jer 31:31-34}

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.