Hebrews 8
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1Now 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 majesty in the heavens,
1The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
2A minister of the holies, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord hath pitched, and not man.
2and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
3For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.
3And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer.
4If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that there would be others to offer gifts according to the law,
4Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law.
5Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: See (saith he) that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shewn thee on the mount.
5The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
6But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament, which is established on better promises.
6Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
7For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place have been sought for a second.
7For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.
8For finding fault with them, he saith: Behold, the days shall come, saith the Lord: and I will perfect unto the house of Israel, and unto the house of Juda, a new testament:
8But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
9Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.
10For this is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their mind, and in their heart will I write them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least to the greatest of them:
11No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.
12Because I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
12For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
13Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old, is near its end.
13By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
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