“For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.”
Hebrews 8:7 (WEB)
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5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.” 6But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law. 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8For finding fault with them, he said,“Behold,the days are coming”, says the Lord,“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathersin the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;for they didn’t continue in my covenant,and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.