Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

as also in another place God says, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

saying, “Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.”

And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.

and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

But showing its fault, God says to them, “Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!”

saying, “I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

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

And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.

So when he came into the world, he said, “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

And he says of the angels, “He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,”

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

As it says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’” –