[Hebrews 9]

 

             ^9:1 Therefore indeed, even the first tabernacle was having ordinances of divine-service to God and the holy-place, a worldly one. ^9:2 For^* the first tabernacle was prepared, which is called^* the holy-place, in which were the lamp-stand and the table and the loaves of the showbread. ^9:3 But the tabernacle which is called^* the holy of holies was after the second curtain, ^9:4 holding a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant^*, and has been covered all around on every-side with gold, in which was the golden jar holding the manna and Aaron’s scepter which had sprouted and the tablets of the covenant^*, ^9:5 and up above it the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which things it is now not the time to speak of them individually. {Exo 25:1-40, 26:36, 40:3, Num 17:10}

             ^9:6 Now these things have thus been prepared and the priests indeed go-forth always into the first tabernacle, completing the divine-services to God; ^9:7 but the high-priest went alone into the second, once in the year for all, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and on behalf of the sins of ignorance of the people. ^9:8 The Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the holy of holies has not yet been manifested while the first tabernacle still has a standing. ^9:9 This tabernacle (which is a figure toward the present time), according-to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, but are not able to complete the one giving-divine-service to God according-to the conscience, ^9:10 being only ordinances of the flesh (upon the basis of foods, drinks and assorted ceremonial washings), laying upon us till a time of reformation.

 

             ^9:11 But Christ came^* as a high-priest of the future good things, through the greater and more complete tabernacle that is not handmade (this thing is not of this creation), ^9:12 nor through the blood of male-goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy of holies and found everlasting redemption. ^9:13 For^* if the blood of male-goats and oxen and ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the ones who have been desecrated, is making one holy toward the cleanness of the flesh, ^9:14 how-much more the blood of Christ (who through the everlasting Spirit offered himself unblemished to God), will be cleansing your^° conscience from dead works, ^*that^* you may give-divine-service to the living God.

             ^9:15 And because of this and his death which happened ^*for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant^*, he is the intermediary of a new covenant^*, ^*that the ones who have been called may receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance. ^9:16 For^* where there is a covenant^*, it is a necessity for the death of the one who covenanted^* it to be brought about. ^9:17 For^* a covenant^* is steadfast upon the dead, since it is never enforced when he who covenanted^* it is living. ^9:18 Hence even the first covenant^* has not been inaugurated without blood. ^9:19 For^* when every commandment was spoken by Moses to all the people according-to the law, and after he took the blood of the calves and male-goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he then sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ^9:20 saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant^* which God commanded toward you^°.’ {Exo 24:8} ^9:21 Now likewise, he also sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry^* in the blood. ^9:22 And according-to the law, almost all things are cleansed in blood and no forgiveness happens without the shedding of blood.

 

             ^9:23 Therefore indeed, it was a necessity that the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ^9:24 For^* the Christ did not enter into the handmade holy of holies, counterparts to the true^* one, but into heaven itself, now to be manifested in the face of God on our behalf. ^9:25 Nor did he enter in-order-that he should offer himself often, just-like the high-priest enters into the holy of holies every year with^* another’s blood; ^9:26 otherwise it was essential for him to suffer often even from the conception of the world, but now once for all upon the end of the ages, he has been manifested ^*for the nullifying of sin through the sacrifice of himself. ^9:27 And inasmuch as it is laid up for men to die once but after this the judgment, ^9:28 so the Christ has been offered once for all, ^*that^* he should carry the sins of many, and will also be seen a second-time ^*for salvation, separate from sin, to the same who are waiting for him.