Hebrews 9

¹The former also indeed had justifications of service, and a secular sanctuary.

²For the tabernacle was made, the first, wherein were the candlesticks, and the table, and the proposition of loaves, which is called Holy.

³But after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called Sancta Sanctorum:

⁴having a golden censer, and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in the which was a golden pot having Manna, and the rod of Aaron that had blossomed, and the tables of the testament,

⁵and over it were the Cherubins of glory over-shadowing the propitiatory, of which things it is not needful to speak now particularly.

⁶But these things being so ordered, in the first tabernacle indeed the Priests always entered, accomplishing offices of the sacrifices.

⁷But in the second, once a year the high priest only: not without blood which he offereth for his own and the people's ignorance:

⁸the Holy Ghost signifying this, that the way of the Holies was not yet manifested, the former tabernacle as yet standing.

⁹Which is a parable of the time present: according to which are offered gifts and hosts, which cannot concerning the conscience make perfect him that serveth,

¹⁰only in meats and in drinks, and diverse baptisms, and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

¹¹But Christ assisting an high Priest of the good things to come, by a more ample and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:

¹²neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by his own blood entered in once into the Holies, eternal redemption being found.

¹³For if the blood of goats and of oxen and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctifieth the polluted to the cleansing of the flesh,

¹⁴how much more hath the blood of Christ who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleansed our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

¹⁵And therefore he is the Mediator of the new Testament: that death being a mean, unto the redemption of these prevarications which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

¹⁶For where there is a testament: the death of the testator must of necessity come between.

¹⁷For a testament is confirmed in the dead: otherwise it is yet of no value, whiles the testator liveth.

¹⁸Whereupon neither was the first certes dedicated without blood.

¹⁹For all the commandment of the Law being read of Moyses to all the people: he taking the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, sprinkled the very book also itself and all the people,

²⁰saying, This is the blood of the Testament, which God hath commanded unto you.

²¹The tabernacle also & all the vessels of the ministry he in like manner sprinkled with blood.

²²And all things almost according to the law are cleansed with blood: and without shedding of blood there is not remission.

²³It is necessary therefore that the examplers of the celestials be cleansed with these: but the celestials themselves with better hosts than these.

²⁴For Jesus is not entered into Holies made with hand, examplers of the true: but into Heaven it-self, that he may appear now to the countenance of God for us.

²⁵Nor that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the Holies, every year in the blood of others:

²⁶otherwise he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world: but now once in the consummation of the worlds, to the destruction of sin, he hath appeared by his own host.

²⁷And as it is appointed to men to die once, and after this, the judgement:

²⁸so also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many. The second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him, unto salvation.