¹Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking [is], We have such a one high priest who has sat down on [the] right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens;

¹Basi, jambo muhimu katika hayo tunayosema ni hili: sisi tunaye Kuhani Mkuu wa namna hiyo, ambaye anaketi upande wa kulia wa kiti cha enzi cha Mwenyezi Mungu mbinguni.

²minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, [and] not man.

²Yeye hutoa huduma ya Kuhani Mkuu katika Mahali Patakatifu sana, yaani ndani ya ile hema ya kweli iliyojengwa na Bwana, siyo na binadamu.

³For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.

³Kila Kuhani Mkuu ameteuliwa kumtolea Mungu vipawa na dhabihu, na hivyo Kuhani Mkuu wetu lazima pia awe na kitu cha kutolea.

⁴If then indeed he were upon earth, he would not even be a priest, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law,

⁴Kama yeye angekuwa wa hapa duninani, asingekuwa kamwe kuhani, kwani wako makuhani wengine wanaotoa sadaka kufuatana na Sheria.

⁵(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told [when] about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)

⁵Huduma zao za kikuhani ni mfano tu na kivuli cha yale yaliyoko mbinguni. Ndivyo pia ilivyokuwa kwa Mose. Wakati alipokuwa karibu kuitengeneza ile hema, Mungu alimwambia: "Tengeneza kila kitu kufuatana na ule mfano ulioonyeshwa kule mlimani."

⁶But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

⁶Lakini sasa Yesu amepewa huduma ya kikuhani iliyo bora zaidi kuliko yao, kama vile agano alilothibitisha kati ya watu na Mungu ni bora zaidi, kwani lina msingi wake katika ahadi za mambo yaliyo bora zaidi.

⁷For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.

⁷Maana kama lile agano la kwanza halingalikuwa na dosari, hakungalikuwa na haja ya agano la pili.

⁸For finding fault, he says to them, Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and I will consummate a new covenant as regards the house of Israel, and as regards the house of Juda;

⁸Lakini Mungu aliwalaumu watu wake aliposema: "Siku zinakuja, asema Bwana, ambapo nitafanya agano jipya na watu wa Israeli na kabila la Yuda.

⁹not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in [the] day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because *they* did not continue in my covenant, and *I* did not regard them, saith [the] Lord.

⁹Agano hili halitakuwa kama lile nililofanya na babu zao siku ile nilipowaongoza kwa mkono kutoka nchi ya Misri. Hawakuwa waaminifu kwa agano langu; na hivyo mimi sikuwajali, asema Bwana.

¹⁰Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and *they* shall be to me for people.

¹⁰Na hili ndilo agano nitakalofanya na watu wa Israeli siku zijazo, asema Bwana: Nitaweka sheria zangu akilini mwao, na kuziandika mioyoni mwao. Mimi nitakuwa Mungu wao, nao watakuwa watu wangu.

¹¹And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from [the] little one [among them] unto [the] great among them.

¹¹Hakuna mtu atakayemfundisha mwananchi mwenzake, wala atakayemwambia ndugu yake: Mjue Bwana. Maana watu wote, wadogo na wakubwa, watanijua mimi.

¹²Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

¹²Nitawasamehe makosa yao, wala sitakumbuka tena dhambi zao."

¹³In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged [is] near disappearing.

¹³Kwa kusema juu ya agano jipya, Mungu alilichakaza lile la kwanza; na chochote kinachochakaa na kuwa kikuukuu kitatoweka karibuni.