ALT(i)
1 Now [this is the] main point about the [things] being said: we have such a High Priest who sat down at [the] right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
2 a Minister of the holy places [fig., the sanctuary] and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not humanity [fig., and not by human hands].
3 For every high priest is appointed to be offering both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, [it is] necessary for this One also to be having something which He should offer.
4 For indeed if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, there being the priests, the ones offering the gifts according to the Law,
5 who sacredly serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly [things], just as Moses had been divinely warned, being about to be erecting the tabernacle, "See," for He says, "you will make all [things] according to the pattern, the one having been shown to you in the mountain." [Exod 25:40]
6 But now He has obtained a far superior sacred service, to the degree that He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
7 For if that first [covenant] was faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.
8 For finding fault with them [i.e. the people], He says, "Listen! [The] days are coming, says the LORD, and I will establish a new covenant over the house of Israel and over the house of Judah,
9 not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in [the] day of My having taken [them] by their hand to bring them out of [the] land of Egypt, because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
10 "Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD, giving My laws into their mind, and I will inscribe them on their hearts [fig., in their inner selves], and I will be to them for a God, and they will be to Me for a people.
11 "And by no means shall they teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother [and sister], saying, 'Know the LORD,' because all will know Me from [the] least of them to [the] greatest.
12 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessness deeds I shall by no means remember anymore." [Jer 31:31-34]
13 By the saying "new," He has made the first obsolete. Now the one becoming obsolete and growing old [is] on the verge of disappearing.