Hebrews 8
8
A Heavenly Priesthood
1Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, # 8:1 Col 3:1; Heb 2:17 2a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that was set up by the Lord and not man. # 8:2 Ex 33:7; Heb 9:11,24 3For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts # 8:3 Eph 5:2; Heb 5:1; 9:14 and sacrifices; therefore, it was necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4Now if he were on earth, he wouldn’t be a priest, since there are those # 8:4 Other mss read priests offering the gifts prescribed by the law. 5These serve as a copy and shadow # 8:5 Col 2:17; Heb 9:23; 10:1 of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tabernacle. For God said, Be careful that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain. # 8:5 Ex 25:40,# 8:5 Ex 25:40; Heb 11:7; 12:25 6But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator # 8:6 Jb 33:23; Is 29:1; Gl 3:19–20; 1Tm 2:5; Heb 9:15; 12:24 of a better covenant, # 8:6 Heb 7:22; 9:15; 12:24; 13:20 which has been established on better promises. # 8:6 Lk 22:20; 2Co 3:6,8
A Superior Covenant
7For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second one. 8But finding fault with his people, # 8:8 Lit with them he says: # 8:8 Other mss read finding fault, he says to them
See, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah —
9 not 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.
I showed no concern for them, says the Lord,
because they did not continue in my covenant.
10 For this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people. # 8:10 Zch 8:8; 2Co 3:3; Heb 10:16
11 And each person will not teach his fellow citizen, # 8:11 Other mss read neighbor
and each his brother or sister, saying, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know me,
from the least to the greatest of them. # 8:11 Is 54:13; Jn 6:45; 1Jn 2:27
12 For I will forgive their wrongdoing,
and I will never again remember their sins. # 8:12 Other mss add and their lawless deeds,# 8:8–12 Jr 31:31–34,# 8:12 Jr 31:31–34; Rm 11:27; Heb 10:17
13By saying a new covenant, he has declared that the first is obsolete. And what is obsolete and growing old is about to pass away. # 8:13 2Co 5:17
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Hebrews 8
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1Now the main point of what is being said is this: we in fact have such a Kohen Gadol, who has taken his moshav LIMIN HASHEM#8:1 Ps 110:1 (at the right hand of the kisse of the kavod in Shomayim). 2Our Kohen Gadol is mesharet baKodesh (minister in the holy things) of the true Mishkan set up by Adoneinu and not by any mere mortal. 3For every Kohen Gadol is ordained to offer both minchot and zevakhim, from which it was necessary for this Kohen Gadol to have something also which he might offer. 4If, therefore, he were on ha'aretz he would not be a kohen, als there are kohanim who offer every korban (sacrifice) according to the Torah; 5However, the avodas kodesh sherut of these kohanim is service of a copy and shadow of the things in Shomayim, just as Moshe Rabbeinu was warned, when he was about to complete the Mishkan for “URE'EH” (Now see to it), Hashem says, VA'ASEH BETAVNITAM ASHER ATAH MAREH BAHAR (that you will make it according to the pattern having been shown to you on the mountain).#8:5 Ex 25:40 6But now our Kohen Gadol has attained a more fest (excellent) avodas kodesh sherut in as much as he is also the Metavekh#8:6 Job 33:23; Isa 43:27; 2Chr 32:31; Isa 42:4; cf. Dt 5:5,19-28 of a more fest (excellent) Brit upon which more auspicious havtachot (promises) have been enacted. 7For if the Brit HaRishonah had been without fault, it would not have been necessary to speak about a Brit HaShniyah.#8:7 Jer 31:31-34 [30-33]
8For, when Hashem finds fault with them, he says, HINEI YAMIM BA'IM, NE'UM HASHEM, VKHARATI ES BEIS YISRAEL V'ES BEIS YEHUDAH BRIT CHADASHA (Behold, days are coming, says Hashem, when I will establish with the Beis Yisroel and with the Beis Yehudah a Brit Chadasha). 9Not like the Brit that I made with their forefathers on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Mitzrayim; because they broke my Brit, though I was a husband to them. 10KI ZOT HABRIT ASHER EKHROT ES BEIS YISROEL ACHAREI HAYAMIM HAHEM, NE'UM HASHEM; NATATI ES TORATI BEKIRBAM V'AL LIBAM EKHTAVENNAH, V'HAYITI LAHEM L'ELOHIM V'HEMMAH YIH'YU LI LE'AM (Because this is the Brit which I will make with the Beis Yisroel after those days, says Hashem: putting my Torah into the mind of them and upon the levavot of them I will write it and I will be to them G-d and they will be to Me a people).#8:10 See Jer 31:31-34; also Prov 30:4; 8:30; Yn 1:1; Rv 3:20 11V'LO YELAMMEDU OD ISH ES RE'EHU V'ISH ES AKHIV LEMOR, DE'U ES HASHEM; KI KHULAM YEDE'U OTI LEMIKTANNAM V'AD GEDOLAM (No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying “Have da'as of Hashem,” because they will all have da'as of Me, from the least of them to the greatest.) 12KI ESLACH LA'AVONAM U'LECHATTATAM LO EZKAR OD (For I will forgive the wickedness of them and their sin I will remember no more).#8:11-12 Jer 31:34 [33] 13When Hashem uses the word “CHADASHA” he has thereby made the Brit HaRishonah yeshanah and a Brit thus made aging, is near to being yakhlof (vanished).
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