3 Since all priests must offer gifts and sacrifices, Christ also needed to have something to offer.
4 If he were here on earth, he would not be a priest at all, because here the Law appoints other priests to offer sacrifices.
5 But the tent where they serve is just a copy and a shadow of the real one in heaven. Before Moses made the tent, he was told, “Be sure to make it exactly like the pattern you were shown on the mountain!”
6 Now Christ has been appointed to serve as a priest in a much better way, and he has given us much assurance of a better agreement.
7 If the first agreement with God had been all right, there would not have been any need for another one.
8 But the Lord found fault with it and said,“I tell you the time will come,when I will makea new agreementwith the people of Israeland the people of Judah.
9 It won't be like the agreementthat I madewith their ancestors,when I took them by the handand led them out of Egypt.They broke their agreementwith me,and I stopped caringabout them!