6 Aga nüüd on Tema saanud seda kallima ameti, mida parema lepingu vahemees Ta ka on, mis on rajatud parematele tõotustele.

7 Sest kui esimene leping oleks olnud laitmatu, ei siis oleks otsitud aset teisele.

8 Sest neid laites ütleb prohvet neile: „Vaata, päevad tulevad, ütleb Issand, mil Ma teen Iisraeli sooga ja Juuda sooga uue lepingu:

9 mitte selle lepingu sarnase, mille Ma tegin nende vanematega sel päeval, mil Ma võtsin nad kättpidi, et viia nad välja Egiptusemaalt — sest nad ei jäänud Minu lepingusse ja nii Minagi ei hoolinud neist, ütleb Issand —

10 vaid leping, mille Ma teen Iisraeli sooga pärast neid päevi, ütleb Issand, on niisugune: Ma panen neile meelde Oma käsud ja kirjutan need neile südamesse; siis Ma olen neile Jumalaks ja nemad on Mulle rahvaks!

11 Siis ei õpeta keegi enam oma kaaskodanikku ega vend oma venda, öeldes: „Tunne Issandat!", sest nad kõik tunnevad Mind, niihästi nende pisukesed kui nende suured.

12 Sest Ma olen armuline nende ülekohtustele tegudele ega tuleta enam meelde nende patte!"

13 Kui ta nimetab uut, siis on ta esimese tunnistanud vananenuks. Aga mis vananeb ja iganeb, on hävimisele ligi!

6 But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith,

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,

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

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers

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

For they continued not in my covenant,

And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

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

After those days, saith the Lord;

I will put my laws into their mind,

And on their heart also will I write them:

And I will be to them a God,

And they shall be to me a people:

11 And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen,

And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:

For all shall know me,

From the least to the greatest of them.

12 For I will be merciful to their iniquities,

And their sins will I remember no more.

13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.