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But because God found fault with the people, he said:[a]

Look, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant
that I made with their forefathers
at the time when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt.
Because they did not remember my covenant,
I ignored them, says the Lord.
10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord.

I will put my laws into their mind,
and I will write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11 Never again will a man teach his fellow citizen[b]
or his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful in regard to their unrighteousness,
and I will not remember their sins any longer.[c]

13 When God said “new,” he made the first covenant obsolete, and something that is obsolete and growing old is going to disappear.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:8 Some witnesses to the text read Since he found fault, he said to them.
  2. Hebrews 8:11 Some witnesses to the text read neighbor.
  3. Hebrews 8:12 Jeremiah 31:31-34