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8:1  What I mean is we have a high priest who sits at the right side of God's great throne in heaven.
8:2  He also serves as the priest in the most holy place inside the real tent there in heaven. This tent of worship was set up by the Lord, not by humans.
8:3  Since all priests must offer gifts and sacrifices, Christ also needed to have something to offer.
8:4  If he were here on earth, he would not be a priest at all, because here the Law appoints other priests to offer sacrifices.
8:5  But the tent where they serve is just a copy and a shadow of the real one in heaven. Before Moses made the tent, he was told, “Be sure to make it exactly like the pattern you were shown on the mountain!”
8:6  Now Christ has been appointed to serve as a priest in a much better way, and he has given us much assurance of a better agreement.
8:7  If the first agreement with God had been all right, there would not have been any need for another one.
8:8  But the Lord found fault with it and said, “I tell you the time will come, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and the people of Judah.
8:9  It won't be like the agreement that I made with their ancestors, when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They broke their agreement with me, and I stopped caring about them!
8:10  “But now I tell the people of Israel this is my new agreement: ‘The time will come when I, the Lord, will write my laws on their minds and hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
8:11  Not one of them will have to teach another to know me, their Lord.’ “All of them will know me, no matter who they are.
8:12  I will treat them with kindness, even though they are wicked. I will forget their sins.”
8:13  When the Lord talks about a new agreement, he means that the first one is out of date. And anything that is old and useless will soon disappear.