CHAPTER 8
1 But a capital, that is, a short comprehending of many things, on those things that be said. We have such a bishop, that sat on the right half of the seat of greatness in heavens,
2 the minister of saints, and of the very tabernacle, that God made, and not man.
3 For each bishop is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices; wherefore it is need, that also this bishop have something that he shall offer.
4 Therefore if he were on earth, he were no priest, when there were that should offer gifts by the law,
5 which serve to the exemplar, [or figure], and shadow of heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he should end [or should make] the tabernacle, See [thou], he said, make thou all things by the exemplar, that is showed to thee in the mount.
6 But now he hath gotten a better ministry, by so much as he is a mediator of a better testament, which is confirmed with better promises.
7 For if that first had lacked blame, the place of the second should not have been sought.
8 For he reproving them saith, Lo! days come, saith the Lord, and I shall make perfect a new testament on the house of Israel, and on the house of Judah;
9 not like the testament that I made to their fathers, in the day in which I caught their hand, that I should lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they dwelled not perfectly in my testament, and I have despised them, saith the Lord.
10 But this is the testament which I shall assign [or I shall dispose] to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, in giving my laws into the souls of them, and into the hearts of them I shall above write them; and I shall be to them into a God [or into God], and they shall be to me into a people.
11 And each man shall not teach his neighbour, and each man his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord; for all men shall know me, from the least to the more of them.
12 For I shall be merciful to the wickedness of them, and now I shall not bethink on the sins of them.
13 But in saying a new the former waxed old; and that that is of many days, and waxeth old, is nigh the death.