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7 For if that first agreement had been perfect, there would have been no occasion for a second one.
8 But in his dissatisfaction with them he says, " 'See! the time is coming,' says the Lord, 'When I will conclude a new agreement with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
9 Not like the one that I made with their forefathers, On the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt, For they would not abide by their agreement with me, So I paid no attention to them,' says the Lord.
10 'For this is the agreement that I will make with the house of Israel, In those later days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them on their hearts, And they will have me for their God, And I will have them for my people.
11 And they will not have to teach their townsmen and their brothers to know the Lord, For they will all know me, From the lowest to the highest.
12 For I will be merciful to their misdeeds, And I will no longer remember their sins.' "
13 Now when he speaks of a new agreement, he is treating the first one as obsolete; but whatever is obsolete and antiquated is almost ready to disappear.