Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because there[a] are those who offer the gifts according to the law, who serve a sketch and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he[b] was about to complete the tabernacle, for he says, “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.”[c] But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:4 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as causal
  2. Hebrews 8:5 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal participle (“about”)
  3. Hebrews 8:5 A quotation from Exod 25:40