Heb 9
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Now even the first [covenant] had ordinances of [divine] service and the earthly sanctuary.
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For a tabernacle was prepared: the first [part], in which [were] both the lampstand
and the table and the showbread, which is called the holy place;
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and after the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holy of
Holies,
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having a golden altar, and the ark of the covenant having been overlaid on all sides
with gold, in which [was] a golden jar holding the manna, and the rod of Aaron which
budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
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and above it [were] cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; concerning these
things we cannot now speak in detail.
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Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
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but into the second [part] the high priest [goes] alone once during the year, not
without blood, which he offers for himself and for the people's sins committed in
ignorance;
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the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet
revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing,
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which [was] symbolic for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices
are being offered, which are not able, in respect to conscience, to make perfect the
[one] performing the service,
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[concerned] only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances which
are imposed until a time of reformation.
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But Christ came [as] a High Priest of the good things to come, through the greater
and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
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Not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered once
for all into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption.
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For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those having
been defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,
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by how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
Himself without spot to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order
that we might serve the living God?
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And on account of this He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that, since a death
has occurred for redemption of the transgressions at the time of the first covenant,
that those having been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
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For where there [is] a testament, there is necessity for death to be offered of the
[one] making the testament.
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For a testament is valid over dead [people], since it is never valid when the [one]
making the testament lives.
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Therefore not even the first [covenant] has been dedicated without blood.
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For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses according to law to all the people,
he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled
both the book itself and all the people,
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saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
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And likewise he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with
the blood.
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And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding
of blood there is no remission.
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Therefore it [was] necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens to be continually
purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than
these.
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For Christ did not enter into [the] holies made by hands, which are copies of the
true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf;
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not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the Holies
every year with another's blood-
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since it would have been necessary [for] Him to suffer often from the foundation of
the world; but now, once at the consummation of the ages, He has appeared to put away
sin through the sacrifice of Himself.
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And inasmuch as it is appointed for men once to die and after this judgment,
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so also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second
time apart from sin unto salvation, to those who eagerly await Him.