3 Every chief priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, this chief priest had to offer something.
4 If he were on earth, he would not even be a priest. On earth ⌊other⌋ priests offer gifts by following the instructions that Moses gave.
5 They serve at a place that is a pattern, a shadow, of what is in heaven. When Moses was about to make the tent, God warned him, “Be sure to make everything based on the plan I showed you on the mountain.”
6 Jesus has been given a priestly work that is superior to the Levitical priests’ work. He also brings a better promise from God that is based on better guarantees.
7 If nothing had been wrong with the first promise, no one would look for another one.
8 But God found something wrong with his people and said to them,“The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah.
9 It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, so I ignored them, says the Lord.