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8:1  Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have this kind of high priest. He sat down at the right side of the throne of the majesty in the heavens.
8:2  He’s serving as a priest in the holy place, which is the true meeting tent that God, not any human being, set up.
8:3  Every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. So it’s necessary for this high priest also to have something to offer.
8:4  If he was located on earth, he wouldn’t be a priest because there are already others who offer gifts based on the Law.
8:5  They serve in a place that is a copy and shadow of the heavenly meeting tent. This is indicated when Moses was warned by God when he was about to set up the meeting tent: See that you follow the pattern that I showed you on the mountain in every detail.
8:6  But now, Jesus has received a superior priestly service just as he arranged a better covenant that is enacted with better promises.
8:7  If the first covenant had been without fault, it wouldn’t have made sense to expect a second.
8:8  But God did find fault with them, since he says, Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a covenant with the house of Israel, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Judah.
8:9  It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue to keep my covenant, and I lost interest in them, says the Lord.
8:10  This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will place my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
8:11  And each person won’t ever teach a neighbor or their brother or sister, saying, “Know the Lord,” because they will all know me, from the least important of them to the most important;
8:12  because I will be lenient toward their unjust actions, and I won’t remember their sins anymore.
8:13  When it says new, it makes the first obsolete. And if something is old and outdated, it’s close to disappearing.