1Now even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world. 2For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, in which were the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place. 3And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies; 4having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all around with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 5and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak in detail. 6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services; 7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people: 8the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place has not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is still standing; 9which is a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, concerning the conscience, make the worshiper perfect, 10being only (with foods and drinks and various washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. 11But Messiah having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. 13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: 14how much more shall the blood of Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. 17For a testament is of force where there has been death: for it never avails while he who made it lives. 18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. 19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Torah, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded for you. 21Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood. 22And according to the Torah, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. 23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Messiah did not enter into a holy place made with hands, a copy of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: 25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own; 26otherwise he would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages he has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27And inasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and after this comes judgment; 28so Messiah also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those who wait for him, to salvation.