Hebrews 9 (CNT) — Codex Sacra

¹ So indeed the first had decrees of service, and the earthly sanctuary. ² A tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was the lampstand and the table and the presentation of the wheat loaves which is called Holy. ³ Then after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of Holies, ⁴ having a golden censer and the chest of the covenant, having been coated with gold on every side, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and the staff of Aaron that sprouted, and the tablets of the covenant, ⁵ and up above it, effulgent sphinxes overshadowing the seat of propitiation, concerning which there is not now opportunity to speak. ⁶ Now these things having been prepared, the priests are sent into the first tabernacle continually, fulfilling the services. ⁷ But into the second once in the year only the high priest, not without blood, which he offers for himself and the faults of ignorance of the people; ⁸ this signifying the Holy Spirit, that not yet has the way of the saints been made manifest, the first tabernacle still having a standing, ⁹ which is a parable for the present time, at which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, not being able conscientiously to bring he who is serving to perfection, ¹⁰ except in foods and drinks and various cleansings: ordinances of the flesh, being imposed until the time of restoration. ¹¹ But Christ coming to be high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hand (that is, not of this creation,) ¹² nor by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, entered once for all into the holy places, procuring eternal redemption. ¹³ For if sprinkling those who are defiled with the blood of goats and bulls and ashes of a heifer sanctifies for purity of the flesh, ¹⁴ by how much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the eternal Spirit has offered Himself blameless to Yahweh, purify our consciences - apart from dead rituals - for which to serve Yahweh who lives? ¹⁵ And for this reason He is a mediator of a new covenant, so that from death resulting in redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, those having been invited would receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. ¹⁶ (For where there is a testament, it is necessary to endure the death of the testator. ¹⁷ A testament is certain in death, since never would it avail when the testator lives.) ¹⁸ Whereupon neither had the first been consecrated without blood. ¹⁹ For each commandment spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, taking the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the Scroll itself and all the people ²⁰ saying: "This is the blood of the covenant which Yahweh has enjoined to you." ²¹ And the tabernacle and then all the vessels of the service he sprinkled with blood in like manner. ²² And almost anything is purified in blood according to the law, and apart from bloodshed there comes no remission. ²³ So it is a necessity indeed, for these patterns of the things in the heavens to be purified by these means, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ entered not into holy places made by hand, representations of the true, but into heaven itself, to appear now in the presence of Yahweh on our behalf. ²⁵ Nor that He should present Himself often, just as the high priest enters into the holy places each year with another's blood; ²⁶ since it was necessary for Him to suffer often - from the foundation of the Society, then now once in the consummation of the ages He has appeared for an abolition of wrongdoing through His sacrifice. ²⁷ And inasmuch as it is reserved for men to die once, and judgment after that, ²⁸ so also Christ had been offered once to make contribution for the errors of many. He shall appear a second time apart from errors, to those who look to Him for preservation.