Catholic Public Domain Version
"For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is necessary for him also to have something to offer. "
— Hebrews 8:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.”
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“For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.”
“For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.”
“For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.”
“Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.”
“For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.”
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,
who is the minister of holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which was established by the Lord, not by man.
For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is necessary for him also to have something to offer.
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,
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.”
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.