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HEBREWS ยท Chapter 9
9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service,
and a worldly sanctuary.
9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick,
and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary.
9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest
of all;
9:4 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;
9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of
which we cannot now speak particularly.
9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always
into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
9:7 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:
9:8 The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into
the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle
was yet standing:
9:9 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;
9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and
carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
9:11 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;
9:12 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.
9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer
sprinkling the unclean, santifies to the purifying of the flesh:
9:14 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?
9:15 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.
9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the
death of the testator.
9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is
of no strength at all while the testator lives.
9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
9:19 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,
9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God has commanded
with authority unto you.
9:21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all
the vessels of the ministry.
9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without
shedding of blood is no remission.
9:23 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.
9:24 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:
9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;
9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the
world: but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself.
9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the
judgment:
9:28 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.
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