| 1 | Then verily the first [covenant] had also ordinances of divine service , and a worldly sanctuary . |
| 2 | For there was a tabernacle made ; the first , wherein [was] the candlestick , and the table , and the shewbread ; which is called the sanctuary . |
| 3 | And after the second veil , the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all ; |
| 4 | Which had the golden censer , and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold , wherein [was] the golden pot that had manna , and Aaron's rod that budded , and the tables of the covenant ; |
| 5 | And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat ; of which we cannot now speak particularly . |
| 6 | Now when these things were thus ordained , the priests went always into the first tabernacle , accomplishing the service [of God]. |
| 7 | But into the second [went] the high priest alone once every year , not without blood , which he offered for himself , and [for] the errors of the people : |
| 8 | The Holy Ghost this signifying , that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest , while as the first tabernacle was yet standing : |
| 9 | Which [was] a figure for the time then present , in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices , that could not make him that did the service perfect , as pertaining to the conscience ; |
| 10 | [Which stood] only in meats and drinks , and divers washings , and carnal ordinances , imposed [on them] until the time of reformation . |
| 11 | But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come , by a greater and more perfect tabernacle , not made with hands , that is to say , not of this building ; |
| 12 | Neither by the blood of goats and calves , but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place , having obtained eternal redemption [for us]. |
| 13 | For if the blood of bulls and of goats , and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean , sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : |
| 14 | How much more shall the blood of Christ , who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God , purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God ? |
| 15 | And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament , that by means of death , for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament , they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance . |
| 16 | For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator . |
| 17 | For a testament [is] of force after men are dead : otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth . |
| 18 | Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood . |
| 19 | For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law , he took the blood of calves and of goats , with water , and scarlet wool , and hyssop , and sprinkled both the book , and all the people , |
| 20 | Saying , This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you . |
| 21 | Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle , and all the vessels of the ministry . |
| 22 | And almost all things are by the law purged with blood ; and without shedding of blood is no remission . |
| 23 | [It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these ; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these . |
| 24 | For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands , [which are] the figures of the true ; but into heaven itself , now to appear in the presence of God for us : |
| 25 | Nor yet that he should offer himself often , as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others ; |
| 26 | For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world : but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself . |
| 27 | And as it is appointed unto men once to die , but after this the judgment : |
| 28 | So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many ; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation . |
