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@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 \v 5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. It is just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to construct the tabernacle: "See," God said, "that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."
 
 \s5
-\v 6 But now Christ has received a superior ministry because he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been established on better promises.
-\v 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then there would have  been no need to seek a second covenant.
+\v 6 But now Christ has received a much better ministry. It is as he is also the mediator of a better covenant. It was this covenant that has been enacted on better promises.
+\v 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then there would have been no need to seek a second covenant.
 
 \s5
 \v 8 For when God found fault with the people, he said,
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@
 \q 'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
 \q
 \v 9 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors
-\q on the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt.
+\q on the day that I took them by their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt.
 \q For they did not continue in my covenant,
-\q and I paid no more attention to them,' says the Lord.
+\q and I disregarded them,' says the Lord.
 
 \s5
 \q
@@ -37,16 +37,16 @@
 \s5
 \q
 \v 11 They will not teach each one his neighbor
-\q and each one his brother, saying, "Know the Lord,"
-\q for all will know me,
+\q and each one his brother, saying, "Know the Lord."
+\q For all will know me,
 \q from the least to the greatest of them.
 \q
-\v 12 For I will show mercy on their acts of unrighteousness,
-\q and I will remember their sins no more.'"
+\v 12 For I will be merciful to their acts of unrighteousness,
+\q and I will not remember their sins any longer.'"
 
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 \p
-\v 13 In saying "new," he has made the first covenant old. And that which he has declared to be old is ready to disappear.
+\v 13 In saying "new," he has made the first covenant old. And what has become obsolete and old is near to disappearing.