Hebritɔwo 8
1 Nya siwo katã míegblɔ na mi la ƒe taƒonyae nye esi: be nunɔlagã vavã le mía si. Azɔ la, ele dziƒo eye wònɔ anyi ɖe bubuteƒe gãtɔ kekeake,
Now the main point of the things we are saying is this: We do have such a High Priest, who sat down at the right of the Majesty's throne in the heavens,
2 eyae subɔna le gbedoxɔ kple agbadɔ vavãtɔ si le dziƒo la me. Gbedoxɔ sia menye esi amegbetɔ tsɔ eƒe asi tui o, ke boŋ Aƒetɔ la ŋutɔe tui.
Minister of the Holy Places, that is, of the true Tabernacle which the Lord set up, not man.
3 Esi wònye nunɔlagã ɖe sia ɖe ƒe dɔ be wòasa vɔ, eye wòana nuwo la, ele na Kristo hã be wòana nane.
Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices (it follows that it is necessary for this One also to have something He might offer)
4 Nenye ɖe wòle anyigba dzi la, maɖu nunɔla o elabena nunɔlawo li xoxo, ame siwo tsɔa nunanawo nana le Yudatɔwo ƒe se la nu.
—if He were on earth He would not be a priest, there already being priests who offer the gifts according to the Law;
5 Nunɔla siawo subɔna le kɔkɔeƒe la si nye esi le dziƒo la ƒe vɔvɔli. Esia tae, esi Mose be yeatu Agbadɔ le gbea dzi la, Mawu xlɔ̃ nui be, “Kpɔ egbɔ be nàwɔ nu sia nu ɖe ɖoɖo si woɖe fia wò le toa dzi la nu.”
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things (that is why Moses was warned by God when he was ready to assemble the Tabernacle: “See to it,” He says, “that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain”)—
6 Ke nunɔladɔ si wode asi na Yesu la kɔ sãa wu wo tɔ, eye abe ale si nubabla si ƒe avuléla wònye la kɔ wu xoxotɔ sãa ene la, nenema kee woɖoe anyi ɖe ŋugbedodo siwo nyo wu tsãtɔwo la dzi.
but now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, just as He is Mediator of a better covenant, which was enacted as law on the basis of better promises.
7 Elabena nenye ɖe naneke megblẽ le nubabla gbãtɔ ŋu o la, anye ne wometsɔ nubabla bubu ɖɔlii o.
Now if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for a second one;
8 Ke Mawu ŋutɔ kpɔ vodada le eƒe dukɔ la ŋu, eye wògblɔ be, “Aƒetɔ la be ŋkeke li gbɔna esi dzi mabla nu yeye kple Israel kple Yuda ƒe aƒewo.
but finding fault with them He says: “Listen! Days are coming,” says the Lord, “when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah
9 Manɔ abe nu si mebla kple wo fofowo esi melé woƒe alɔnu, kplɔ wo do goe le Egiptenyigba la ene o, elabena womewɔ nuteƒe le nu si mebla kpli wo la me o, eya ta nye hã metrɔ megbe de wo. Aƒetɔ lae gblɔe.
—not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by my covenant and so I disregarded them,” says the Lord.
10 Azɔ la esiae nye nu si mabla kple Israel ƒe aƒe la, le ŋkeke siwo gbɔna la me. Aƒetɔ lae gblɔe. Matsɔ nye sewo ade woƒe susuwo me, eye maŋlɔ wo ɖe woƒe dziwo ŋu. Manye woƒe Mawu, eye woawo hã woanye nye dukɔ.
“Now 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 and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God and they will be my people.
11 Ame aɖeke magafia nu ehavia alo afia nu nɔvia ŋutsu agblɔ be, ‘Dze si Aƒetɔ la’ o, elabena wo katã woanyam tso ɖeviwo dzi, va se ɖe tsitsiawo dzi.
Further, not one of them will teach his neighbor and not one his brother saying, ‘Get to know the Lord!’ because they all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
12 Matsɔ woƒe nu vɔ̃ɖi wɔwɔwo ake wo, eye nyemagaɖo ŋku woƒe nu vɔ̃wo dzi o.”
For I will be merciful to their wrongdoings; I will not at all remember their sins and their lawless deeds.”
13 Ke esi Mawu yɔ nubabla sia be “yeye” la, ewɔ gbãtɔ wòdo xoxo, eye nu si tsi, do xoxo la nu ava yi kpuie.
By saying ‘new’ He has made the first one ‘old’; and what is obsolete and aging is near the end.
