Hebrews 8:9-13

8:9 “It will not be like the covenant ¹  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 ²  my laws in their minds ³  and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. ⁴ 

8:11 “And there will be no need at all ⁵  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. ⁶ 

8:12 “For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.” ⁷ 

8:13 When he speaks of a new covenant, ⁸  he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear. ⁹ 

[8:9]  ¹ tn Grk “not like the covenant,” continuing the description of v. 8b.

[8:10]  ² tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”

[8:10]  ³ tn Grk “mind.”

[8:10]  ⁴ 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.

[8:11]  ⁵ tn Grk “they will not teach, each one his fellow citizen…” The Greek makes this negation emphatic: “they will certainly not teach.”

[8:11]  ⁶ tn Grk “from the small to the great.”

[8:12]  ⁷ sn A quotation from Jer 31:31-34.

[8:13]  ⁸ tn Grk “when he says, ‘new,’” (referring to the covenant).

[8:13]  ⁹ tn Grk “near to disappearing.”