¹Therefore the first tabernacle had indeed also regulations of worship and an earthly Holy Place.

²For a tabernacle was prepared, the first room — in which were both the lampstand and the table and the bread of the presentation — which is named the Holy Places.

³Now behind the second veil was a tabernacle which is being named Holies of Holies,

⁴having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered around in every part with gold, in which was the golden jar having the manna and the staff of Aaron which had budded and the tablets of the covenant;

⁵then above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, concerning which it is not now the time to speak in detail.

⁶Now these things thus prepared, the priests at all times enter indeed into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the sacred services;

⁷however into the second the high priest only enters once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of ignorance of the people;

⁸by this the Holy Spirit was signifying that the way into the Holy Places has not yet been made manifest while the first tabernacle still has a standing;

⁹which is a symbol for the appointed-time which is present, in which gifts both and sacrifices are offered, not being able in regard to conscience to make perfect the one who worships,

¹⁰consisting only in foods and in drinks and in various washings, ordinances of the flesh being imposed until the appointed-time of reformation.

¹¹However the Anointed One, having appeared as high priest of the good things having come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not of this creation,

¹²nor through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, he entered once for all into the Holy Places, having obtained eternal redemption.

¹³For if the blood of goats and of bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the defiled sets apart for purification of the flesh,

¹⁴how much more will the blood of the Anointed One, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

¹⁵And because of this he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

¹⁶For where there is a will, it is necessary to establish the death of the one who made it;

¹⁷for a will is affirmed after death, since otherwise it is not in force when the one who made it is living.

¹⁸Wherefore neither the first has been inaugurated apart from blood.

¹⁹For when every commandment according to the law was being spoken under Moses to all the people, having taken the blood of calves and of goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

²⁰saying, "this is the blood of the covenant which God commanded unto you";

²¹and the tabernacle then and all the vessels of the ministry he likewise sprinkled with blood.

²²And almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding there is no forgiveness.

²³Then it was necessary for the representations indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, however the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

²⁴For the Anointed One has entered not into Holy Places made by hands, copies of the true ones, but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

²⁵nor that he may offer himself repeatedly, just as the high priest enters into the Holy Places every year with the blood of another;

²⁶otherwise it was necessary for him to have suffered repeatedly from the foundation of the world, however now once in the consummation of the ages he has been revealed for the putting away of sin through the sacrifice of himself.

²⁷And inasmuch as it is apportioned to men once to die, and after this to face judgment,

²⁸so also the Anointed One, once having been offered in order to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time apart from sin to those awaiting him for salvation.