Hebrews Chapter 8 verse 13 Holy Bible

ASV Hebrews 8:13

In 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.
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BBE Hebrews 8:13

When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
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DARBY Hebrews 8:13

In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged [is] near disappearing.
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KJV Hebrews 8:13

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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WEB Hebrews 8:13

In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
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YLT Hebrews 8:13

in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old `is' nigh disappearing.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - In 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. "He hath made the first old" (πεπαλαίωκε) refers to the time of Jeremiah's prophecy, not of the writing of the Epistle. The very mention of a new covenant had even then antiquated the other. It thenceforth survived only under the category of old as opposed to new; and further marked with the growing decrepitude which is the precursor of dissolution. This further idea is expressed by the present participle παλαιούμενον (elsewhere applied to garments that are wearing out; cf. Psalm 102:27; Hebrews 1:11; Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 51:6; Luke 12:33), and also by γηράσκον, a figure taken from the advance of old age in men. When the Epistle was written, it would not have been spoken of as "waxing old," but as defunct. The temple, indeed, was still standing, with the old ritual going on; but it had become but as the stately shrine of a lifeless thing. As to the view of the antiquation having begun even in the prophetic age, we observe that the prophets themselves show a consciousness of this, in that their growing tendency is to depreciate rather than exalt the ceremonial Law, and to put mercy above sacrifice. In fact, the Old Testament itself, especially in its later parts, is replete with the principles of the new covenant, anticipated in part, though not to be fully revealed till Christ appeared. And so, when he did appear, the old dispensation had already become obsolete, and the new one prepared for; to be rejected in Israel by those only who, "in the reading of the Old Testament," had "the veil upon their heart."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) In that he saith . . .--Rather, In saying "new" He hath made the first old: now that which groweth old and is failing for age is nigh unto vanishing away. The very language of the prophet contains a declaration of the speedy dissolution of the former covenant. If "nigh unto vanishing" at the time when Jeremiah wrote, well might it now be believed to have passed away.