Q: In our Friday morning Bible class (ladies), we are reading Hebrews and we read in Hebrews 8:8-12, which quotes Jeremiah 31:31-34, in comparing the new covenant with the old. The old covenant law was given by God to Israel. Now God has provided a new and better covenant, one of grace, in which Christ offers to forgive our sins and bring us to God through his sacrificial death. This new covenant reaches beyond Israel and Judah to include all people.