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For finding fault with them, He says,

(A)Behold, days are coming, says the [a]Lord,
[b]When I will complete (B)a new covenant
With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
(C)Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers
In the day when I took them by the hand
To lead them out of the land of Egypt;
For they did not continue in My covenant,
And I did not care for them, says the [c]Lord.
10 (D)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, says the [d]Lord:
[e]I will put My laws into their minds,
And (E)upon their hearts I will write them.
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.
11 (F)And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen,
And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
For (G)all will know Me,
From [f]the least to the greatest of them.
12 (H)For I will be merciful to their iniquities,
(I)And I will remember their sins no more.”

13 [g]When He said, “(J)A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. (K)But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is [h]ready to disappear.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:8 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Jer 31:31
  2. Hebrews 8:8 Lit And
  3. Hebrews 8:9 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Jer 31:32
  4. Hebrews 8:10 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Jer 31:31
  5. Hebrews 8:10 Lit Putting my laws into
  6. Hebrews 8:11 Lit small to great of them
  7. Hebrews 8:13 Or In His saying
  8. Hebrews 8:13 Or near

but God[a] found something wrong with his people[b] when he said,

“Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord,[c]
    when I will establish 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 ancestors at the time
    when I took them by the hand
        and brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant,
    I ignored them, declares the Lord.[d]
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
    after that time, declares the Lord:[e]
I will put my laws in their minds
    and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.
11 Never again will everyone teach his neighbor
    or his brother by saying, ‘Know the Lord,’[f]
because all of them will know me,
    from the least important to the most important.
12 For I will be merciful regarding their wrong deeds,
    and I will never again remember their sins.”[g]

13 In speaking of a “new” covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:8 Lit. he
  2. Hebrews 8:8 Lit. with them
  3. Hebrews 8:8 MT source citation reads Lord
  4. Hebrews 8:9 MT source citation reads Lord
  5. Hebrews 8:10 MT source citation reads Lord
  6. Hebrews 8:11 MT source citation reads Lord
  7. Hebrews 8:12 Cf. Jer 31:31-34