Modern Literal Version
[Hebrews 8]

     ^8:1 Now a summation upon the things in which are spoken is this: we have such a high-priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, ^8:2 a minister^* of theholy of holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man. ^8:3 For^* every high-priest is designated, ^*that^* he should offer both gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this one to also have something that he should offer. ^8:4 For^* if he indeed was upon the earth, he would not even be a priest, being that the priests who offer the gifts according to the law; ^8:5 who gives-divine service to what is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just-as Moses had been divinely-warned while being about to complete the tabernacle; for^* behold, he says, You will be making^* all things according to the pattern which was shown to you in the mountain. {Exo 25:40}^8:6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry^*, inasmuch as he is also the intermediary of a better covenant^*, which has been instituted upon better promises.

     ^8:7 For^* if that first covenant^*was blameless, then no place would have been sought for a second. ^8:8 For^* finding-fault with them, he says, 'Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, That I will complete a new covenant^* upon the house of Israel and upon the house of Judah; ^8:9not according to the covenant^* that I made^* with their fathers in the day when I myself grabbed their hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain in my covenant^* and I neglected them, says the Lord. ^8:10 Because this one is the covenant^* which I will covenant^* with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will be giving my laws into their mind and I will be writing them upon their hearts. And I will be a God to them and they will be covenanted^* into a people for me; ^8:11 and they should never need to teach, saying, Know the Lord; to each one his fellow-citizen and each one his brother, because all will know me, from the little insofar as their great ones. ^8:12 Because I will be lenient to their unrighteousnesses; I should never remember their lawlessnesses and their sins anymore.' {Jer 31:31-34}

     ^8:13 While^* we were saying, a new covenant^*, the first has become-obsolete. But what becomes-obsolete and is aged, it is near to disappearing.

Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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