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Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law; who serve that which is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned of God when he is about to [a]make the tabernacle: for, [b]See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount. But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:5 Or, complete
  2. Hebrews 8:5 Ex. 25:40.