Letter to the Hebrews (WEB)
9:1 Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly
sanctuary. 9:2For there was a tent prepared, the first, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the
show bread; which is called the Holy Place. 9:3After the second veil, the tent which is called the
Holy of Holies, 9:4having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides
with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables
of the covenant; 9:5and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things
we can't now speak in detail. 9:6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in
continually into the first tent, accomplishing the services, 9:7but into the second the high priest
alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the
people. 9:8The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the Holy Place has not yet been
revealed, while the first tent is yet standing; 9:9which is an illustration of the present age, where
gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the
worshipper perfect; 9:10being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly
ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. 9:11But Christ having come as a high priest of the
coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is to say,
not of this creation, 9:12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood,
entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. 9:13For if the blood
of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the
cleanness of the flesh: 9:14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the
living God? 9:15For this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place
for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who have been
called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 9:16For where a last will and testament is,
there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. 9:17For a will is in force where there has
been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. 9:18Therefore even the first covenant
has not been dedicated without blood. 9:19For when every commandment had been spoken by
Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with
water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 9:20saying,
"This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded toward you." 9:21Moreover he sprinkled
the tent and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood. 9:22According to the law,
nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
9:23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with
these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 9:24For Christ entered
not into a holy place made with hands, similar in pattern to the true, but into heaven itself, now to
appear before the face of God for us; 9:25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high
priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, 9:26or else he must have
suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been
revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die
once, and after this, judgment, 9:28so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many,
will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.