¹⁰ Then I took my staff called Favor^(A) and broke it, revoking^(B) the covenant I had made with all the nations.

⁷ So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter,^(A) particularly the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.

⁸ But God found fault with the people and said^[a]:

¹³ By calling this covenant “new,”^(I) he has made the first one obsolete;^(J) and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

¹⁷ For it is declared:

¹⁸ The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless^{(B) 19} (for the law made nothing perfect),^(C) and a better hope^(D) is introduced, by which we draw near to God.^(E)

²⁰ And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath, ²¹ but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him:

²² Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.^(H)

³ For I could wish that I myself^(A) were cursed^(B) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,^(C) those of my own race,^{(D) 4} the people of Israel.^(E) Theirs is the adoption to sonship;^(F) theirs the divine glory,^(G) the covenants,^(H) the receiving of the law,^(I) the temple worship^(J) and the promises.^{(K) 5} Theirs are the patriarchs,^(L) and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah,^(M) who is God over all,^(N) forever praised!^[a](O) Amen.

¹³ They produced false witnesses,^(A) who testified, “This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place^(B) and against the law. ¹⁴ For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place^(C) and change the customs Moses handed down to us.”^(D)