1 Here is the whole point of what we have been saying: we do have just such acohen gadolas has been described. And he does sit at the right hand ofHaG’dulahin heaven.
2 There he serves in the Holy Place, that is, in the true Tent of Meeting, the one erected not by human beings but byAdonai.
3 For everycohen gadolis appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so thiscohen gadoltoo has to have something he can offer.
4 Now if he were on earth, he wouldn’t be acohenat all, since there already arecohanimoffering the gifts required by theTorah.
5 But what they are serving is only a copy and shadow of the heavenly original; for when Moshe was about to erect the Tent, God warned him, “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.”
6 But now the work Yeshua has been given to do is far superior to theirs, just as the covenant he mediates is better. For this covenant has been given asTorahon the basis of better promises.
7 Indeed, if the first covenant had not given ground for faultfinding, there would have been no need for a second one.
8 For God does find fault with the people when he says,
“‘See! The days are coming,’ saysAdonai,
‘when I will establish
over the house of Isra’el and over the house of Y’hudah
a new covenant.
9 “‘It will not be like the covenant
which I made with their fathers
on the day when I took them by their hand
and led them forth out of the land of Egypt;
because they, for their part,
did not remain faithful to my covenant;
so I, for my part,
stopped concerning myself with them,’
saysAdonai.
10 “‘For this is the covenant which I will make
with the house of Isra’el after those days,’
saysAdonai:
‘I will put myTorahin their minds
and write it on their hearts;
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11 “‘None of them will teach his fellow-citizen
or his brother, saying, “KnowAdonai!”
For all will know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,
12 because I will be merciful toward their wickednesses
and remember their sins no more.’”
13 By using the term, “new,” he has made the first covenant “old”; and something being made old, something in the process of aging, is on its way to vanishing altogether.