Moffatt(i)
3 Now, as every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, he too must have something to offer.
4 Were he on earth, he would not be a priest at all, for there are priests already to offer the gifts prescribed by Law
5 (men who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly — as Moses was instructed, when he was about to execute the building of the tabernacle: see, God said, that you make everything on the pattern shown you upon the mountain).
6 As it is, however, the divine service he has obtained is superior, owing to the fact that he mediates a superior covenant, enacted with superior promises.
7 For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second.
8 Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers,
9 on the day I took them by the hand to lead out of Egypt's land; for they would not hold to my covenant, so I let them alone, saith the Lord.
10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me;
11 one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together.
12 I will be merciful to their iniquities, and remember their sins no more.
13 By saying 'a new covenant,' he antiquates the first. And whatever is antiquated and aged is on the verge of vanishing.