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If there was nothing wrong with the first agreement,[a] there would be no need for a second agreement. But God found something wrong with his people. He says:[b]

“The time is coming, says the Lord,
    when I will make a new agreement.
It will be with the people of Israel
    and the people of Judah.
It will not be like the agreement
    I made with their ancestors.
That was when I took them by the hand
    to bring them out of Egypt.
But they broke that agreement,
    and I turned away from them, says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:7 first agreement The contract God gave the Jewish people when he gave them the law of Moses.
  2. 8:8 But . . . says Some Greek copies read “But God found something wrong and says to his people.”

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