The Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 9
{9:1} Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine
service, and an earthly sanctuary. {9:2} For there was a tent
prepared, the first, in which were the menorah, the table, and the
show bread; which is called the Holy Place. {9:3} After the second
veil, the tent 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, Aharon's
rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; {9:5} and above it
Keruvim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we
can't now speak in detail. {9:6} Now these things having been thus
prepared, the [1>]Kohanim[<1] go in continually into the first tent,
accomplishing the services, {9:7} but into the second the [2>]Kohen
Gadol[<2] alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers
for himself, and for the errors of the people. {9:8} The [3>]Ruach
HaKodesh[<3] is signifying this, that the way into the Holy Place has
not yet been revealed, while the first tent is yet standing; {9:9}
which is an illustration of the present age, where gifts and
sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience,
of making the worshipper perfect; {9:10} 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 [4>]Kohen
Gadol[<4] of the coming good things, through the greater and more
perfect tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this
creation, {9:12} 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 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. {9:16} 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 [5>]mitzvah[<5]
had been spoken by Moshe 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, {9:20} saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God
commanded toward you." {9:21} Moreover he sprinkled the tent and all
the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood. {9:22}
According to the law, 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 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; {9:25} nor
yet that he should offer himself often, as the [6>]Kohen Gadol[<6]
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 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.
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:6} priests
[2] {9:7} high priest
[3] {9:8} Holy Spirit
[4] {9:11} high priest
[5] {9:19} commandment
[6] {9:25} high priest
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