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| 1 | Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; | 
| 2 | A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. | 
| 3 | For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. | 
| 4 | For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: | 
| 5 | Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly 
things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the
tabernacle: for, 
See, saith he, 
that thou make all things according to the
pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
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| 6 | But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. | 
| 7 | For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. | 
| 8 | For finding 
fault with them, he saith, 
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will 
make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
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1For this is the covenant that I will make with 
the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my 
2laws into 
their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and
they shall be to me a people:
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1For I will 
be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their
 ainiquities will
I remember no more.
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In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which
decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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