Text -- Hebrews 8:9-13 (NET)

8:9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord. 8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. 8:11 “And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest. 8:12 “For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.” 8:13 When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Heb 8:9

¹ tn Grk “not like the covenant,” continuing the description of v. 8b.

NET Notes: Heb 8:10

¹ tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”

² tn Grk “mind.”

³ tn Grk “I will be to them for a God and they will be to me for a people,” following the Hebrew constructions of Jer 31.

NET Notes: Heb 8:11

¹ tn Grk “they will not teach, each one his fellow citizen…” The Greek makes this negation emphatic: “they will certainly not teach.”

² tn Grk “from the small to the great.”

NET Notes: Heb 8:12

¹ sn A quotation from Jer 31:31-34.

NET Notes: Heb 8:13

¹ tn Grk “when he says, ‘new,’” (referring to the covenant).

² tn Grk “near to disappearing.”