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Hebrews 8:7-9

A covenant remembered

The promised covenant · Hebrews 8

Story guide: The quotation recalls the covenant with Israel’s ancestors and their failure to continue in it.

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7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.

8For in finding fault with them he says, “Look, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,”

9not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

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