Hebrews 8: 7 - 9: 10
| 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8For finding fault with them, he said, |
| “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, |
| “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; |
| 9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, |
| in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; |
| for they didn’t continue in my covenant, |
| and I disregarded them,” says the Lord. |
| 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 mind, |
| I will also write them on their heart. |
| I will be their God, |
| and they will be my people. |
| 11They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, |
| and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ |
| for all will know me, |
| from their least to their greatest. |
| 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. |
| I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.” |
| 13In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away. |
| 1Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary. 2For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. 3After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, 4having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; 5and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail. 6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, 7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. 8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing. 9This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect, 10being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. |
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