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Hebrews 8:4-13

4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law; 5who servethat which isa copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warnedof Godwhen he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount. 6But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises. 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. 8For finding fault with them, he saith,

Behold, the days come, saith 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 forth out of the land of Egypt;For they continued not in my covenant,And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord;I will put my laws into their mind,And on their heart also will I write them:And I will be to them a God,And they shall be to me a people:11And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen,And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:For all shall know me,From the least to the greatest of them.12For I will be merciful to their iniquities,And their sins will I remember no more.

13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

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