Chapter 9                               

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9:1 The first covenant also had regulations of service and earthly devoted places. 2 A tabernacle was constructed; the first room was called the Devoted Place, in which were both the lampstand and the table and the bread of purpose [r]. 3 Then, behind the veil of the tabernacle was a second [room] called the Devotion of Devotions 4 having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant that was covered all around every part with gold, inside of which was the golden pot having the manna, Aaron’s staff which budded, and the tablets of the covenant. 5 Moreover, above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the propitiation, the resolution of all discord [s), concerning which we cannot now speak in detail. 6 Now, having prepared these things, the priests entered through the first part of the tabernacle to complete their services. 7 But the high priest entered into the second part [the Devoted of Devotions] only once a year, not without blood which he offered for himself and for the people for offenses committed in ignorance. • 8 The Spirit of the Devoted thus indicating that the way into the Most Devoted Place had not been made visible while the first tabernacle was standing. 9 This is a symbol and parable for the present time, in that both the gifts and sacrifices being offered are not able to perfect the consciousness of the ones worshipping, 10 consisting only in foods and drinks and various washings, ordinances of the flesh imposed until the time of restoration. • 11 Christ, however, having arrived now with us as High Priest of the good things [of Christ] that have come, through the greater and more perfect Tabernacle not made by hands [not of this creation]. 12 And not with the blood of goats and calves, • but through His own blood, He entered once for all into the Most Devoted having obtained age-unfolding redemption and release. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling that which is unclean, makes devoted for the purification of the flesh, 1 • 4 how much more, rather, does the blood of Christ, who through the age-unfolding Spirit offered Himself unblemished and faultless to God, purify our consciousness from dead works into serving the living God. • 15 And for this reason, He is the Mediator of a new covenant, by means of a death having already taken place, into redeeming the stepping aside that took place under the first covenant, that those who have been called might receive the promise of the inheritance unfolding through the ages. • 16 For where there is a will of inheritance, the death of the one who made the will is necessary for it to come into effect. 17 For a will is not in force while the one who made it is still alive, indeed it is affirmed only after the will-writer dies. 18 Neither was the first [covenant] established apart from blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken every injunction according to the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.” 21 Moreover, the tabernacle and all the vessels of ministry he sprinkled with blood in the same way; • 22 and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no release or setting free. • 23 It was necessary, then, that the representations of the things in the heavens be purified with the items used by Moses, but the heavens must have better sacrifices than those things. 24 For Christ has not entered into the devoted places made by hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear and to declare inside the presence of God for us, for our sakes. • 25 Not that he should offer Himself repeatedly, even as the high priest enters into the Most Devoted every year with the blood of another; 26 otherwise it would have been necessary for Him to have suffered repeatedly from the conception of the cosmos. • Now, however, in the completion together of the ages, He has appeared once for the putting away or cancellation of sin, of all disconnection from God, through the sacrifice of Himself. • 27 And just as it is appointed to men to die once with judgment; 28 so also Christ, having been offered once to bear, to up-carry, the sins of many, out of a second time He will be perceived without sin into salvation by those eagerly expecting Him [t].

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