Hebrews
Chapter 8

8:1	[kjv]	Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
	[bbe]	Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,
8:2	[kjv]	A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
	[bbe]	As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.
8:3	[kjv]	For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
	[bbe]	Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.
8:4	[kjv]	For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
	[bbe]	If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;
8:5	[kjv]	Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
	[bbe]	Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.
8:6	[kjv]	But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
	[bbe]	But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.
8:7	[kjv]	For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
	[bbe]	For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.
8:8	[kjv]	For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
	[bbe]	For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;
8:9	[kjv]	Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
	[bbe]	Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
8:10	[kjv]	For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
	[bbe]	For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
8:11	[kjv]	And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
	[bbe]	And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.
8:12	[kjv]	For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
	[bbe]	And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.
8:13	[kjv]	In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
	[bbe]	When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.