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.

1 Capitulum autem super ea qu dicuntur : Talem habemus pontificem, qui consedit in dextera sedis magnitudinis in clis, 2 sanctorum minister, et tabernaculi veri, quod fixit Dominus, et non homo. 3 Omnis enim pontifex ad offerendum munera, et hostias constituitur : unde necesse est et hunc habere aliquid, quod offerat. 4 Si ergo esset super terram, nec esset sacerdos : cum essent qui offerent secundum legem munera, 5 qui exemplari, et umbr deserviunt clestium. Sicut responsum est Moysi, cum consummaret tabernaculum : Vide (inquit) omnia facito secundum exemplar, quod tibi ostensum est in monte. 6 Nunc autem melius sortitus est ministerium, quanto et melioris testamenti mediator est, quod in melioribus repromissionibus sancitum est. 7 Nam si illud prius culpa vacasset, non utique secundi locus inquireretur. 8 Vituperans enim eos dicit : Ecce dies venient, dicit Dominus : et consummabo super domum Isral, et super domum Juda, testamentum novum, 9 non secundum testamentum quod feci patribus eorum in die qua apprehendi manum eorum ut educerem illos de terra gypti : quoniam ipsi non permanserunt in testamento meo : et ego neglexi eos, dicit Dominus. 10 Quia hoc est testamentum quod disponam domui Isral post dies illos, dicit Dominus : dando leges meas in mentem eorum, et in corde eorum superscribam eas : et ero eis in Deum, et ipsi erunt mihi in populum : 11 et non docebit unusquisque proximum suum, et unusquisque fratrem suum, dicens : Cognosce Dominum : quoniam omnes scient me a minore usque ad majorem eorum : 12 quia propitius ero iniquitatibus eorum, et peccatorum eorum jam non memorabor. 13 Dicendo autem novum : veteravit prius. Quod autem antiquatur, et senescit, prope interitum est.