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Hebrews 8 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:1 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:2 - As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:3 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:4 - 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:5 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:6 - 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.

A New Covenant

(Jer 31:31–34 )
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:7 - For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:8 - 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:9 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:10 - 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:11 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:12 - And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:13 - 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.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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