¹Ale hlavné pri tom, o čom je slovo, je to, že máme takého veľkňaza, ktorý sa posadil po pravici trónu Veličenstva v nebesiach,

¹Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

²svätoslužobník svätyne a pravého stánu, ktorý postavil Pán a nie človek.

²a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

³Lebo každý najvyšší kňaz ustanovúva sa nato, aby obetoval dary a obeti, a preto bolo potrebné, aby aj on mal niečo, čo by obetoval.

³For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

⁴Lebo keby bol na zemi, ani by nebol kňazom, keď sú kňazi, ktorí podľa zákona obetujú dary

⁴For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

⁵a ktorí svätoslúžia obrazu a tôni nebeských vecí, jako povedal Bôh Mojžišovi, keď mal robiť stán: Hľaď, vraj, aby si učinil všetko podľa vzoru, ktorý ti bol ukázaný na vrchu.

⁵who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.” Exodus 25:40

⁶Ale teraz došiel Ježiš natoľko znamenitejšej svätoslužby, nakoľko je aj lepšej smluvy prostredníkom, ktorá je uzákonená na lepších zasľúbeniach.

⁶But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

⁷Lebo ak by tamtá prvá bola bývala bezúhonná, nehľadalo by sa miesto druhej.

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

⁸Lebo karhajúc ich hovorí: Hľa, idú dni, hovorí Pán, a uzavriem s domom Izraelovým a s domom Júdovým novú smluvu,

⁸For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come,” says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

⁹nie podľa smluvy, ktorú som učinil s ich otcami toho dňa, keď som ich pojal za ruku, aby som ich vyviedol z Egyptskej zeme, lebo oni nezostali v mojej smluve, a ja som si ich nepovšimnul, hovorí Pán.

⁹not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

¹⁰Lebo toto je smluva, ktorú uzavriem s domom Izraelovým po tých dňoch, hovorí Pán: Dám svoje zákony do ich mysle a napíšem ich na ich srdcia a budem im Bohom, a oni mi budú ľudom.

¹⁰“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹¹A nebudú viacej učiť každý svojho blížneho a každý svojho brata hovoriac: Poznaj Pána! Lebo ma budú všetci znať, od malého z nich až do veľkého z nich.

¹¹They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, TR reads “neighbor” instead of “fellow citizen” and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

¹²Lebo budem milostivý ich neprávostiam a na ich hriechy a na ich bezzákonné skutky viacej nespomeniem.

¹²For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.” Jeremiah 31:31-34

¹³Tým, že hovorí novú, vyhlásil prvú za zastaralú. A to, čo zastarieva a stárne, je blízke zániku.

¹³In that he says, “A new covenant,” he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.