Hebrews 9

¹Now the first tabernacle had regulations of worship and an earthly holy place.

²For a tabernacle was constructed, the first room, in which were the lampstand and the table and the presentation of the bread, which is called the Holy Place.

³And behind the second veil there was a tabernacle called the Holy of Holies.

⁴having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, covered on all sides with gold, in which were a golden jar holding the manna and Aaron's rod that had budded and the tablets of the covenant;

⁵And above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; about which things it is not now the time to speak in detail.

⁶Now these things having been thus arranged, the priests enter the first tabernacle at all times, performing the sacred services.

⁷but into the second [tent] the high priest alone enters once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people.

⁸By this the Holy Spirit was indicating that the way into the holy places had not yet been disclosed, while the first tabernacle still had standing.

⁹which is a figure for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are being offered, not being able with respect to conscience to make perfect the one who worships,

¹⁰Only in foods and drinks and various washings, and regulations of the flesh being imposed until the time of reformation.

¹¹But Christ, having appeared as high priest of the good things that have come, through the greater and more perfect tent not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,

¹²nor through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood he entered once for all into the holy places, having secured eternal redemption.

¹³For if the blood of goats and of bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctifies for the purification of the flesh —

¹⁴how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

¹⁵And because of this he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, a death having occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

¹⁶For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be established.

¹⁷For a will is confirmed upon death, since it never takes effect while the one who made it is alive.

¹⁸Hence not even the first was inaugurated without blood.

¹⁹For when every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, having taken the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

²⁰saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.'

²¹And the tabernacle also, and all the vessels of the ministry, he likewise sprinkled with blood.

²²And almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

²³It was necessary, then, for the representations of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

²⁴For Christ did not enter holy places made by hands, copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

²⁵nor that he might offer himself repeatedly, just as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own —

²⁶Otherwise it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world; but now, once at the consummation of the ages, he has been revealed for the removal of sin through his sacrifice.

²⁷And just as it is appointed for people to die once, but after this comes judgment —

²⁸So also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, apart from sin, to those who eagerly await him for salvation.