008:007 For if that first Covenant had been free from imperfection, there would have been no attempt to introduce another.
008:008 For, being dissatisfied with His people, God says, "`There are days coming,' says the Lord, `When I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new Covenant—
008:009 a Covenant unlike the one which I made with their forefathers
on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out from
the land of Egypt; for they would not remain faithful to that.'
`So I turned from them,' says the Lord.
008:010 `But this is the Covenant that I will covenant with the house
of Israel after those days,' says the Lord: I will put My
laws into their minds and will write them upon their hearts.
And I will indeed be their God and they shall be My People.
008:011 And there shall be no need for them to teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all will know Me from the least of them to the greatest;
008:012 Because I will be merciful to their wrongdoings, and their sins I will remember no longer.'"
008:013 By using the words, "a new Covenant," He has made the first one obsolete; but whatever is decaying and showing signs of old age is not far from disappearing altogether.
009:001 Now even the first Covenant had regulations for divine worship, and had also its sanctuary—a sanctuary belonging to this world.
009:002 For a sacred tent was constructed—the outer one, in which were the lamp and the table and the presented loaves; and this is called the Holy place.
009:003 And behind the second veil was a sacred tent called the Holy of holies.