1Of the things which we have spoken, this is the pith: that we have such an high(hye) priest that is sitten on the right hand of the seat of majesty in heaven,
2and is a minister of wholy(holy) things, and of the very(true) tabernacle, which God pight,(pitched) and not man.
3For every high(hye) priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity, that this man have some what also to offer.
4For he were not a priest, if he were on the earth where are priests that according to the law offer gifts,
5which priests serve unto the ensample and shadow of heavenly things: even as the answer of God was given unto Moses when he was about to finish the tabernacle: For take heed (said he) that thou make all things according to the patron shewed to thee in the mount.
6Now hath he obtained a more excellent office, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better testament, which was made for better promises.
7For if that first testament had been such a one that no man could have found fault with it:(faultless:) then should no place have been sought for the second.
8For in rebuking them he saith: Behold the days will come (saith the Lord) and I will finish upon the house of Israel, and upon the house of Judah, a new testament:
9not like(as) the testament that(which) I made with their fathers at that time, when I took them by the hands, to lead them out of the land of Egypt, for they continued not in my testament, and I regarded them not saith the Lord.
10For this is the testament that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days (saith the Lord:) I will put(give) my laws in their minds,(mind) and in their hearts, I will write them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
11And they shall not teach, every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying: know the Lord: For they shall know me, from the least to the most of them:
12For I will be merciful over their iniquities: and on their sins and on their unrighteousness, will I not think any more.(For I will be merciful over their unrighteousness, and on their sins and on their iniquities.)
13In that he saith a new testament, he hath abrogate(weareth out) the old. Now that which is disannulled(worn out) and waxed old, is ready to vanish away.