(26)For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; (27)who has not necessity daily, as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; for this he did once for all, in offering up himself. (28)For the law makes men high priests who have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who is perfected forever. VIII. NOW of the things which we are saying, this is the chief: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty of the heavens; (2)a minister of the holy places, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. (3)For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; wherefore it is necessary, that this one have something which he may offer. (4)For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are those who offer gifts according to the law, (5)who minister after an outline and a shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was admonished by God, when he was about to make the tabernacle; for, See, says he, that thou make all things according to the pattern which was showed thee in the mount. (6)But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also mediator of a better covenant, which has been established upon better promises. (7)For if that first had been faultless, a place would not have been sought for the second. (8)For finding fault with them, he says[8:8]: Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When I will make with the house of Israel, And with the house of Judah, a new covenant; (9)Not according to the covenant that I made for their fathers, In the day when I took hold of their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt; Because they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord. (10)For this is the covenant that I will establish for the house of Israel, After those days, saith the Lord, Putting my laws into their mind, And on their hearts I will write them; And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people; (11)And they shall not teach, Each one his neighbor, and each one his brother, Saying: Know the Lord; Because all shall know me, from the least to the greatest; (12)Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, And their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more. (13)In that he says, A new, he has made the first old. Now that which is grown old, and worn out with age, is ready to vanish away. IX.