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title: Hebrews 8
slug: kjv-nt/hebrews-8
createdAt: 2024-09-11T03:14:42.089Z
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**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; **2 **A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. **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. **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: **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. **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.

**7 **For if that first *covenant* had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

**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:

**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.

**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:

**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.

**12 **For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

**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.