5. They serve in a sanctuary that is an example and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses was instructed by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
6. But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, because He is the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
7. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no occasion would have been sought for a second.
8. For finding fault with them, God says: “Surely the days are coming, says the Lord,when I will make a new covenantwith the house of Israeland with the house of Judah,
9. not according to the covenantthat I made with their fathersin the day when I took them by the handto lead them out of the land of Egypt;because they did not continue in My covenant,and I rejected them, says the Lord.
10. This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israelafter those days, says the Lord:I will put My laws into their mindsand write them on their hearts;and I will be their God,and they shall be My people.