Hebrews 8:7
For if the Brit HaRishonah had been without fault, it would not have been necessary to speak about a Brit HaShniyah. + 8:7 Jer 31:31-34 [30-33]
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
In Context
Cross References
Hebrews 7:11Now if shleimut (completeness) had been attainable through the Kehunah of Levi — for under it came the Mattan Torah (giving of the Torah) to the Am Brit — what further need would there have been to speak of another KOHEN arising “according to the order of Malki-Tzedek” + 7:11 Ps 110:4 rather than “al divrati Aharon”?
Hebrews 8:6But now our Kohen Gadol has attained a more fest (excellent) avodas kodesh sherut in as much as he is also the Metavekh + 8:6 Job 33:23; Isa 43:27; 2Chr 32:31; Isa 42:4 ; cf. Dt 5:5,19-28 of a more fest (excellent) Brit upon which more auspicious havtachot (promises) have been enacted.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 8:7-13
The Old and New Covenant. ( a. d. 62.) 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their… Read the whole commentary →