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For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But as it is, Christ<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek he">b</a></sup></span> has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For he finds fault with them when he says:<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts For finding fault with it he says to them">c</a></sup></span></p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,</span><br /><span class="indent">when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel</span><br /><span class="indent">and with the house of Judah,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">not like the covenant that I made with their fathers</span><br /><span class="indent">on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For they did not continue in my covenant,</span><br /><span class="indent">and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel</span><br /><span class="indent">after those days, declares the Lord:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will put my laws into their minds,</span><br /><span class="indent">and write them on their hearts,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and I will be their God,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they shall be my people.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor</span><br /><span class="indent">and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for they shall all know me,</span><br /><span class="indent">from the least of them to the greatest.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I will remember their sins no more.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>tabernacle</i>; also verse 5<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Greek <i>he</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Some manuscripts <i><span class="catch-word">For</span> finding fault with it he says to them</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. 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