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The Earthly Holy Place
Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.
Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.
The Earthly Tabernacle
The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one.
The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one.
For a tabernacle was set up; the first, in which [were] both the candlestick and the table and the exposition of the loaves, which is called Holy;
but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies,
having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which [were] the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant;
Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now [the time] to speak in detail.
These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,
Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests enter at all times, accomplishing the services;
but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.
but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people:
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the [holy of] holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has [its] standing;
the which [is] an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,
but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
[consisting] only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until [the] time of setting things right.
Redemption through His Blood
But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)
But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)
he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the [holy of] holies, having found an eternal redemption.
For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,
how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship [the] living God?
And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.
(For where [there is] a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in.
For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.
For a testament [is] of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)
Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.
For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
For every commandment having been spoken according to [the] law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”
saying, This [is] the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.
And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.
And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood;
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.
Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
[It was] necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,
nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;
for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
since he had [then] been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for [the] putting away of sin by his sacrifice.
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;
so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation.