so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:

I will open My mouth in parables;
I will declare things kept secret
from the foundation of the world.

Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

For

Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

And He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is My body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me.”

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.

The two

Brothers, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant that has been ratified.

So Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.

But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree He is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been legally enacted on better promises.

Therefore, He is the mediator of a new covenant,

so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He says:

to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus—the great Shepherd of the sheep—with the blood of the everlasting covenant,

Which

Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

General references

The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: