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9:1  Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship · and also an earthly sanctuary.
9:2  For a tent was set up. The outer room, in which were the lampstand and the table and the consecrated · bread, was called “the Holy Place.”
9:3  Behind · the curtain was a second room, a shrine · called “the Most Holy Place.”
9:4  It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which were the golden urn containing the manna, · · Aaron’s rod that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
9:5  Above · it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of forgiveness. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
9:6  When these things · had been prepared in this way, the priests used to enter regularly into the outer room to perform their ritual services;
9:7  however into the second room · only the high priest entered, and that only once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people.
9:8  By this the Holy Spirit is showing · that the way into the real sanctuary had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tent was standing.
9:9  This is an illustration pointing to the present time, · during which the gifts and sacrifices being offered cannot perfect the worshiper so far as his conscience is concerned,
9:10  but deal only with food and drink and various ceremonial washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of correction.
9:11  But when Christ appeared as high priest of the good things that have now come, passing through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation),
9:12  he entered once for all into the Most Holy Place, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of · his own blood, thus obtaining an eternal redemption.
9:13  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkled ashes of a heifer, sanctify those who have been ceremonially defiled so that · their flesh is purified,
9:14  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify · our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!
9:15  And for this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under that first covenant. ·
9:16  For where there is a covenant, it is required that the death of the one who made it be established.
9:17  For a will takes effect only when a person has died; it cannot possibly be valid so long as the one who made it is still alive.
9:18  Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
9:19  For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of calves and · goats together with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
9:20  saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God ordained for you.” ·
9:21  And in the same way he sprinkled with blood both the tent and all the vessels · used in worship.
9:22  In fact, according to the law almost everything is sprinkled with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
9:23  Thus it was necessary that · earthly copies of the · heavenly realities be purified by these rites, but the heavenly realities themselves with better sacrifices than these.
9:24  For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands, that was a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, · now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
9:25  Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood not his own,
9:26  for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the climax of the ages to put away · sin by · his sacrifice.
9:27  And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that to experience judgment,
9:28  so also · Christ, after having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time to those who are eagerly awaiting him, without reference to sin but for salvation.