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9:1  Now indeed, the first covenant also had regulations of service and the earthly Holy Place.
9:2  For the first tabernacle was prepared— in which were both the lampstand and the table, and the Presentation of the bread— which is called the Holies.
9:3  And behind the second curtain was the tabernacle being called the Holies of Holies,
9:4  having a golden altar-of-incense, and the ark of the covenant having been covered on-all-sides with gold, in which was a golden jar having the manna and the rod of Aaron having budded and the tablets of the covenant,
9:5  and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat— concerning which things there is not time now to be speaking in detail.
9:6  And these things thus having been prepared, the priests accomplishing the services are continually going into the first tabernacle.
9:7  But into the second only the high priest goes once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and the ignorances of the people—
9:8  ... the Holy Spirit making this clear: that the way of  the Holies has not yet been made-known while the first tabernacle was still having a standing,
9:9  which is a symbol for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered not being able to perfect the one worshiping in relation to the conscience,
9:10  being only (in-addition-to foods and drinks and different cleansings) regulations of  flesh being imposed until the time of reformation.
9:11  But Christ, having arrived as High Priest of the good things having come, entered once-for-all into the Holies through the greater and more-perfect tabernacle not made-by-human-hands— that is, not of this creation;
9:12  and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.
9:13  For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the ones having been defiled sanctifies for the cleansing of the flesh,
9:14  by how much more will the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without-blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works so that we may worship the living God!
9:15  And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that the ones having been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance— a death having taken-place for the redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
9:16  For where there is a will, it is a necessity that the death of the one having made-the-will be brought-forth.
9:17  For a will over dead ones is firm, since it does not ever have [legal] power when the one having made-the-will is living.
9:18  Hence, not even the first covenant has been inaugurated without blood.
9:19  For every commandment having been spoken to all the people by Moses according-to the Law— having taken the blood of the calves and the goats along 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 commanded to you” [Ex 24:8].
9:21  And he likewise sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the objects of the ministry.
9:22  Indeed according-to the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and forgiveness does not take-place apart-from blood-shedding.
9:23  Therefore it was a necessity that the copies of the things in the heavens be cleansed with these things— but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
9:24  For Christ did not enter into the Holies made-by-human-hands— copies of the true things— but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
9:25  Nor did He enter in order that He might offer Himself often— as indeed the high priest enters into the Holies yearly with the blood belonging-to-another—
9:26  otherwise He would had-to-have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once-for-all at the conclusion of the ages for the setting-aside of sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
9:27  And just as it is destined for people to die once and after this comes the judgment,
9:28  so also Christ, having been offered once so as to bear the sins of many, will appear for a second time without reference to sin to the ones eagerly-awaiting Him, for salvation.