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The Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 9
{9:1} Now indeed even the first[1] covenant had ordinances of divine
service, and an earthly sanctuary. {9:2} For a tabernacle was
prepared. In the first part were the menorah, the table, and the show
bread; which is called the Holy Place. {9:3} After the second veil was
the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, {9:4} having 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 tablets of the covenant; {9:5} and above it
cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we
can't speak now in detail. {9:6} Now these things having been thus
prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle,
accomplishing the services, {9:7} but 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. {9:8} The Holy Spirit is
indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed
while the first tabernacle was still standing; {9:9} which is a symbol
of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are
incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper
perfect; {9:10} being only (with meats and drinks and various
washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
{9:11} But Messiah having come as a high priest of the coming good
things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with
hands, that is to say, not of this creation, {9:12} nor 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.
{9:13} For 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: {9:14} how much more will the blood of Messiah, who through
the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? {9:15} For
this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has
occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the
first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the
promise of the eternal inheritance. {9:16} For where a last will and
testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
{9:17} For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is
never in force while he who made it lives. {9:18} Therefore even the
first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. {9:19} For when
every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according
to the Torah, 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, {9:20} saying, "This is the blood of the covenant
which God has commanded you."[2]
{9:21} Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of
the ministry in the same way with the blood. {9:22} According to the
Torah, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from
shedding of blood there is no remission. {9:23} It 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. {9:24} For Messiah hasn't entered into holy
places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but
into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
{9:25} nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, {9:26}
or 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. {9:27} Inasmuch as it is appointed
for men to die once, and after this, judgment, {9:28} so Messiah also,
having been offered once to [3>]bear the sins of many,[<3] will appear
a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him
for salvation.
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:1} TR adds "tabernacle"
[2] {9:20} Exodus 24:8
[3] {9:28} Isaiah 53:13
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