1 Die hoofsaak nou van wat ons gesê het, is d¡t: Ons het so 'n Hoëpriester wat gaan sit het aan die regterhand van die troon van die Majesteit in die hemele,
2 'n Bedienaar van die heilige dinge en van die ware tabernakel wat die Here opgerig het en nie 'n mens nie.
3 Want elke hoëpriester word aangestel om gawes en offers te bring. Daarom moes Hy ook iets hê om te offer.
4 Want as Hy op aarde was, sou Hy selfs geen priester wees nie, omdat daar priesters is wat volgens die wet die gawes offer,
5 hulle wat 'n afbeeldsel en skaduwee van die hemelse dinge bedien, soos Moses 'n goddelike bevel ontvang het toe hy die tabernakel sou voltooi; want Hy het gesê: Kyk dat jy alles maak volgens die voorbeeld wat jou op die berg getoon is.
6 Maar nou het Hy 'n voortrefliker bediening verkry vir sover Hy ook Middelaar is van 'n beter verbond wat op beter beloftes wettelik gegrond is.
7 Want as daardie eerste een onberispelik was, sou daar nie plek vir 'n tweede gesoek word nie.
8 Want Hy berispe hulle en sê: Kyk, daar kom dae, spreek die Here, dat Ek met die huis van Israel en die huis van Juda 'n nuwe verbond tot stand sal bring,
9 nie volgens die verbond wat Ek met hulle vaders gemaak het op die dag toe Ek hulle aan die hand geneem het om hulle uit Egipteland uit te lei nie; want hulle het nie gebly by my verbond nie, en Ek het hulle veronagsaam, spreek die Here.
10 Want dit is die verbond wat Ek n die dae sal sluit met die huis van Israel, spreek die Here: Ek sal my wette in hulle verstand gee en dit op hulle hart skrywe; en Ek sal vir hulle 'n God wees, en hulle sal vir My 'n volk wees.
11 En hulle sal nie meer elkeen sy naaste en elkeen sy broer leer en sê: Ken die Here nie; want almal sal My ken, klein en groot onder hulle.
12 Want Ek sal barmhartig wees oor hulle ongeregtighede en aan hulle sondes en hulle oortredinge nooit meer dink nie.
13 As Hy sê 'n nuwe verbond, het Hy die eerste oud gemaak; en wat oud word en verouder, is naby die verdwyning.
1 Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,
2 As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.
3 Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.
4 If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;
5 Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.
6 But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.
7 For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.
8 For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;
9 Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
11 And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.
12 And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.
13 When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.