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They serve at a place that is a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, a place exactly like that about which Moses was told when he was about to complete the tent.[a] For God said, “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.”[b]

But now, Jesus has obtained a ministry that is as much superior as the covenant that he mediates is better, because it has been established on the basis of better promises. Indeed, if that first covenant were without fault, there would have been no reason to look for a second.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:5 Traditionally tabernacle
  2. Hebrews 8:5 Exodus 25:40