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# Hebrews 8

Hebrews 8 is chapter 8 of 13 in the Letter to the Hebrews. Here are all 13 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> More of the excellence of the priesthood of Christ and of the New Testament.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Hebrews 8 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Now the main point in the things that have been stated is this: that we have so great a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,
2. who is the minister of holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which was established by the Lord, not by man.
3. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is necessary for him also to have something to offer.
4. And so, if he were upon the earth, he would not be a priest, since there would be others to offer gifts according to the law,
5. gifts which serve as mere examples and shadows of the heavenly things. And so it was answered to Moses, when he was about to complete the tabernacle: “See to it,” he said, “that you make everything according to the example which was revealed to you on the mountain.”
6. But now he has been granted a better ministry, so much so that he is also the Mediator of a better testament, which has been confirmed by better promises.
7. For if the former one had been entirely without fault, then a place certainly would not have been sought for a subsequent one.
8. For, finding fault with them, he says: “Behold, the days shall arrive, says the Lord, when I will consummate a New Testament over the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
9. not according to the testament which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand, so that I might lead them away from the land of Egypt. For they did not remain in my testament, and so I disregarded them, says the Lord.
10. For this is the testament which I will set before the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord. I will instill my laws in their minds, and I will inscribe my laws on their hearts. And so, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
11. And they will not teach, each one his neighbor, and each one his brother, saying: ‘Know the Lord.’ For all shall know me, from the least, even to the greatest of them.
12. For I will forgive their iniquities, and I will no longer remember their sins.”
13. Now in saying something new, he has made the former old. But that which decays and grows old is close to passing away.

## Hebrews 8 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Capitulum autem super ea quæ dicuntur: Talem habemus pontificem, qui consedit in dextera sedis magnitudinis in cælis,
2. sanctorum minister, et tabernaculi veri, quod fixit Dominus, et non homo.
3. Omnis enim pontifex ad offerendum munera, et hostias constituitur: unde necesse est et hunc habere aliquid, quod offerat.
4. Si ergo esset super terram, nec esset sacerdos: cum essent qui offerent secundum legem munera,
5. qui exemplari, et umbræ deserviunt cælestium. Sicut responsum est Moysi, cum consummaret tabernaculum: Vide (inquit) omnia facito secundum exemplar, quod tibi ostensum est in monte.
6. Nunc autem melius sortitus est ministerium, quanto et melioris testamenti mediator est, quod in melioribus repromissionibus sancitum est.
7. Nam si illud prius culpa vacasset, non utique secundi locus inquireretur.
8. Vituperans enim eos dicit: Ecce dies venient, dicit Dominus: et consummabo super domum Israël, et super domum Juda, testamentum novum,
9. non secundum testamentum quod feci patribus eorum in die qua apprehendi manum eorum ut educerem illos de terra Ægypti: quoniam ipsi non permanserunt in testamento meo: et ego neglexi eos, dicit Dominus.
10. Quia hoc est testamentum quod disponam domui Israël post dies illos, dicit Dominus: dando leges meas in mentem eorum, et in corde eorum superscribam eas: et ero eis in Deum, et ipsi erunt mihi in populum:
11. et non docebit unusquisque proximum suum, et unusquisque fratrem suum, dicens: Cognosce Dominum: quoniam omnes scient me a minore usque ad majorem eorum:
12. quia propitius ero iniquitatibus eorum, et peccatorum eorum jam non memorabor.
13. Dicendo autem novum: veteravit prius. Quod autem antiquatur, et senescit, prope interitum est.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1070: The Celebration of the Christian Mystery ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1545: The Sacrament of Holy Orders in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 2: That is, the sanctuary.
- Verse 4: That is, if he were not of a higher condition than the Levitical order of earthly priests, and had not another kind of sacrifice to offer, he should be excluded by them from the priesthood, and its functions, which by the law were appropriated to their tribe.
- Verse 5: The priesthood of the law and its functions were a kind of an example and shadow of what is done by Christ in his church militant and triumphant, of which the tabernacle was a pattern.
- Verse 11: So great shall be light and grace of the new testament, that it shall not be necessary to inculcate to the faithful the belief and knowledge of the true God, for they shall all know him.
- Verse 13: Supply 'covenant.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Jan 21, 2027: St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr — First Reading, Hebrews 7:25—8:6
- Fri, Jan 22, 2027: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children — First Reading, Hebrews 8:6-13

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).