1 The point of all this is, we do have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,
2 and who officiates in the sanctuary or true tabernacle set up by the Lord and not by man.
3 Now, as every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, he too must have something to offer.
4 Were he on earth, he would not be a priest at all, for there are priests already to offer the gifts prescribed by Law
5 (men who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly ??as Moses was instructed, when he was about to execute the building of the tabernacle: see, God said, that you make everything on the pattern shown you upon the mountain).
6 As it is, however, the divine service he has obtained is superior, owing to the fact that he mediates a superior covenant, enacted with superior promises.
7 For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second.
8 Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers,
9 on the day I took them by the hand to lead out of Egypt's land; for they would not hold to my covenant, so I let them alone, saith the Lord.
10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me;
11 one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together.
12 I will be merciful to their iniquities, and remember their sins no more.