who serve a sketch and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he[a] was about to complete the tabernacle, for he says, “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.”[b] But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, occasion would not have been sought for a second.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:5 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal participle (“about”)
  2. Hebrews 8:5 A quotation from Exod 25:40