Hebrews 9

1 Now certainly the first (covenant pointed to the promise and) also had (high priests performing) acts of service (for the people as established by the law, which service was a shadow testifying about how God would purge them from death) and (also had) the earthly sanctuary (that was made after the pattern which God showed Moses).

2 For there was a tabernacle prepared; the first room (that the priests would enter every sabbath), containing the candlestick, and the table and the shewbread; which is called the Holy place.

3 Now behind the second veil was the (second) tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

4 Which (the high priest must enter every year with blood, having) the golden censer (to carry burning coals from the altar of incense to behind the veil), and the ark of the covenant covered all around with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of testimony;

5 And over the ark the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat; concerning which it is not now the time to speak in detail.

6 Now (for that present time) when these things were thus ordained (and in place, the priests always went (every sabbath) into (the Holy place) the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service (for the people) of God.

7 But into the second (tabernacle behind the veil) the high priest went in alone and only once every year, and not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people (who had ignorantly gone out of the way unto life):

8 The Holy Ghost was signifying (by this), that the way into the Holiest of all (in the true heavenly tabernacle) was not yet made manifest, while as the earthly tabernacle (along with its gifts and sacrifices) were still in place:

9 Which was only a shadow for that specific period of time, in which both gifts and sacrifices were offered, that could not ever make the one that did the service perfect, as pertaining to (purging of the) conscience (from the death in their flesh);

10 But only consisted in meats and drinks, and divers’ washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them (to keep them shut up unto the faith) until the time of reformation (when God would make straight that which got crooked purging our conscience of our body of death).

11 However, Christ having appeared (in the holiest place), coming as a high priest (the substance) of the good things to come, (who came) by a greater and more perfect tabernacle (in the heavens), not made with hands, that is to say, not of this (earthly) building (of which we have spoken);

12 Neither (has He entered) by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the true Holiest of all (in the heavens), having (once and forever) obtained eternal redemption (from death) for us all.

13 For if the (continued offering of the) blood of bulls and goats, and the burnt ashes of a heifer (mixed with water and) sprinkled upon those spotted by death, (was meant to keep us), sanctifying (our hearts by pointing us) to the purifying of the flesh (which was to come:

14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself (once and for all time and appeared with His own blood, His flesh clothed with immortality, forever) unspotted (by death) to God, purge your conscience from performing dead works to serve the living God?

15 And because of this, He is the mediator (the One who guarantees all the terms) of a new (and better) covenant, so that by means of (His) death, for the redemption of the transgressions (deviations, and willful disregard) there was under the first covenant, (so that being released from the bondage of death) all those who are called (His son’s) might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

16 Because where there is a will, there must also of necessity be the death of the one who made it.

17 For a will is only in force after men are dead: otherwise, it is of no strength at all while the one who has made it lives.

18 For that same reason neither was the first (covenant) set apart as sanctified without (the shedding of) blood.

19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to (instruct) all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, mixed with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book (of the covenant), and all the people,

20 Saying, this is the blood that testifies of all that God (will do which He) has charged (be done) concerning you.

21 Then he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

22 And almost all (the patterns of heavenly) things are by the law purged with blood (in the earthly tabernacle); because apart from the shedding of blood there is no sending away (of death).

23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things (which were only representative of things) in the heavens, should be purified with these (sacrifices); but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these (which by the law were only patterns).

24 For Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but (has entered) into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

25 Nor (has He entered) that He should offer Himself often (annually), as the high priest enters into the holiest place every year with blood of another (kind and not their own);

26 Otherwise, it would have been necessary for Him to have offered Himself repeatedly (for our death) since the foundation of the world (when death first entered), but now once near the culmination of the age (of death’s reign) has He appeared to put away death (once and for all time) through the sacrifice of Himself.

27 And in the same way it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: