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Hebrews 8:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. "

Hebrews 8:3

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1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this: we have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

2 a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man.

3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law,

5 who 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.”

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Hebrews 5:1

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"For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins."

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Hebrews 7:27

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"who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself."

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"Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his."

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"The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”"

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Leviticus 14:31

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Hebrews 8:1

"Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this: we have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,"

Hebrews 8:2

"a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man."

Hebrews 8:4

"For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law,"

Hebrews 8:5

"who 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.”"

Hebrews 8:6

"But 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."

Hebrews 8:7

"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second."

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