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6 But as it is, the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to the old priesthood as the covenant he mediates is superior to the old covenant, since it has been enacted on better promises.

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one. 8 But finding fault with *8:8 it, God says to the people ¦ the people, God says NA SBL WHit, God says to the people,

"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,

when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel

and with the house of Judah,

9 not like the covenant I made with their fathers

on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt.

For they did not continue in my covenant,

so I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

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

after those days, says the Lord:

I will put my laws into their minds

and write them on their hearts.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

11 No longer will a man teach his *8:11 fellow citizen ¦ neighbor PCK TRfellow citizen

or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

for they will all know me,

from the least of them to the greatest.

12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities;

their sins *8:12 and their lawless deeds 90.6% ¦ --- CT 3.5%and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

13 In speaking of "a new covenant," he has made the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.