Then
verily the first covenant had also ordinances of
divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
02 For there was a tabernacle made; the first,
wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and
the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
03 And after the second veil, the tabernacle
which is called the Holiest of all;
04 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of
the covenant overlaid round about with gold,
wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and
Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the
covenant;
05 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing
the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak
particularly.
06 Now when these things were thus ordained, the
priests went always into the first tabernacle,
accomplishing the service of God.
07 But into the second went the high priest alone
once every year, not without blood, which he
offered for himself, and for the errors of the
people:
08 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way
into the holiest of all was not yet made
manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet
standing:
09 Which was a figure for the time then present,
in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices,
that could not make him that did the service
perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and
divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed
on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good
things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say,
not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but
by his own blood he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and
the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience from
dead works to serve the living God?
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15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the
new testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under
the first testament, they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of
necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For a testament is of force after men are
dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while
the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was
dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all
the people according to the law, he took the
blood of calves and of goats, with water, and
scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the
book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament
which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the
tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged
with blood; and without shedding of blood is no
remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns
of things in the heavens should be purified with
these; but the heavenly things themselves with
better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the
true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as
the high priest entereth into the holy place
every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the
foundation of the world: but now once in the end
of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by
the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of
many; and unto them that look for him shall he
appear the second time without sin unto
salvation.
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