NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

Hebrews 8:8

World English Bible Updated

For finding fault with them, he said,

“Behold, the days are coming”, says the Lord,

“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

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Hebrews 8:8 in context

Hebrews 8:5–11

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who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

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But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

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For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

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For finding fault with them, he said,

“Behold, the days are coming”, says the Lord,

“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers

in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;

for they didn’t continue in my covenant,

and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

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“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel

after those days,” says the Lord:

“I will put my laws into their mind;

I will also write them on their heart.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

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They will not teach every man his fellow citizen

and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

for all will know me,

from their least to their greatest.

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Source notes

Notes from World English Bible Updated

  1. “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

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