¹Zvino chikuru chezvinhu zvatataura ndichochi: Tine mupristi mukuru wakadai wakagara kuruoko rwerudyi rwechigaro cheushe cheMukuru kumatenga,

¹Now in the things which we are saying the chief 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,

²mushumiri wenzvimbo tsvene, newetende rechokwadi rakadzikwa naIshe, kwete munhu.

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

³Nekuti mupristi mukuru umwe neumwe wakagadzwa kuti ape zvipo nezvibayiro; naizvozvo zvakafanira kuti ave nechaangabayirawo;

³For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also have somewhat to offer.

⁴Nekuti dai aiva panyika, ungadai asina kuva mupristi, vapristi zvavaripo, vanobayira zvipo zvinoenderana nemurairo;

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

⁵ivo vanoshumira mufananidzo nemumvuri wezvinhu zvekudenga, Mozisi sezvaakarairwa naMwari oda kugadzira tende; nekuti wakati: Chenjera kuti uite zvose nemufananidzo wawakaratidzwa mugomo.

⁵who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.

⁶Asi zvino wakapiwa basa rakanyanyisa kunaka, sezvaari murevereri wesungano inopfuura pakunaka, yakasimbiswa pazvivimbiso zvinopfuura pakunaka.

⁶But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

⁷Nekuti dai iya yekutanga yakanga isina chaingapomerwa, dai pasina nzvimbo yakatsvakirwa yechipiri.

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

⁸Nekuti achivapomera mhosva, unoti: Tarira, mazuva anovuya, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe, andichaita nawo sungano itsva neimba yaIsraeri, uye neimba yaJudha.

⁸For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

⁹Kwete zvichienderana nesungano yandakaita nemadzibaba avo, pazuva randakabata ruoko rwavo kuti ndivabudise munyika yeEgipita; nekuti havana kurambira musungano yangu, neni ndikasava nehanya navo, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe;

⁹Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

¹⁰Nekuti iyi isungano yandichaita neimba yaIsraeri shure kwemazuva iwayo, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe; ndichaisa mirairo yangu mumurangariro wavo, nemuhana dzavo ndichainyora, uye ndichava kwavari Mwari ivo vachava kwandiri vanhu;

¹⁰For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

¹¹uye havangazodzidzisi umwe neumwe mumwe wake, kana umwe neumwe hama yake, achiti: Ziva Ishe; nekuti vose vachandiziva, kubva kumudukusa kusvikira kumukurusa wavo.

¹¹And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.

¹²Nekuti ndichava netsitsi nekusarurama kwavo, nezvivi zvavo nezvakaipa zvavo handichazorangariri.

¹²For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more.

¹³Zvaanoti: Sungano itsva, yakasakadza yekutanga; zvino chosakara, chova chakare, choda kurova.

¹³In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.