1But a capital, that is, a short comprehending of many things, on those things that be said. We have such a bishop, that sat on the right half of the seat of greatness in heavens,

2the minister of saints, and of the very tabernacle, that God made, and not man.

3For each bishop is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices; wherefore it is need, that also this bishop have something that he shall offer.

4Therefore if he were on earth, he were no priest, when there were that should offer gifts by the law,

5which serve to the exemplar, [or figure], and shadow of heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he should end [or should make] the tabernacle, See [thou], he said, make thou all things by the exemplar, that is showed to thee in the mount.

6But now he hath gotten a better ministry, by so much as he is a mediator of a better testament, which is confirmed with better promises.

7For if that first had lacked blame, the place of the second should not have been sought.

8For he reproving them saith, Lo! days come, saith the Lord, and I shall make perfect a new testament on the house of Israel, and on the house of Judah;

9not like the testament that I made to their fathers, in the day in which I caught their hand, that I should lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they dwelled not perfectly in my testament, and I have despised them, saith the Lord.

10But this is the testament which I shall assign [or I shall dispose] to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, in giving my laws into the souls of them, and into the hearts of them I shall above write them; and I shall be to them into a God [or into God], and they shall be to me into a people.

11And each man shall not teach his neighbour, and each man his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord; for all men shall know me, from the least to the more of them.

12For I shall be merciful to the wickedness of them, and now I shall not bethink on the sins of them.

13But in saying a new the former waxed old; and that that is of many days, and waxeth old, is nigh the death.