{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/hebrews/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T23:44:23.930Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Hebrews","bookSlug":"hebrews","chapter":8,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking is, We have such a one high priest who has sat down on the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, and not man."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged is near disappearing."}],"citation":{"inline":"Hebrews 8 (DBT)","markdown":"[Hebrews 8](https://primebible.com/dbt/hebrews/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/hebrews/8 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}