1 Now a summary of the things being spoken. We have such a high priest, who has sat at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens;2 a servant of the saints and of the true tabernacle, which the Prince has pitched, not man.3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, in which manner it is necessary also for this one to have something which He would offer.4 So if indeed He was on the earth He would not even be a priest, there being those who offer gifts in accordance with the law,5 those who serve being a pattern and shadow of those in heavenly places, just as Moses was advised being about to commission the tabernacle: "See that," He says, "you shall make all things according to the example which was shown to you on the mountain."6 But now He has obtained a more distinguished office, and by so much better a covenant is He mediator, by which better promises are ordained by law.7 For if that first was faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.8 Censuring them He says: "Behold, days are coming, says Yahweh, and I will consummate for the house of Israel and for the house of Judah a new covenant.9 Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking hold of their hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt; because they did not abide by My covenant, I then disregarded them, say Yahweh.10 For this is the covenant which I will devise with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: giving My laws into their minds, I will also inscribe them upon their hearts, and I will be for a God to them, and they shall be for a people to Me.11 And by no means shall they teach each his fellow countryman and each his brother, saying 'know Yahweh', because they all shall know Me, from the small unto the great among them.12 Because I will be propitious with their unrighteousness, and their errors I will not at all remember hereafter."13 In saying "New," He has made the first Old, and that which is growing old and aged is near vanishing.