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Date: 08 Jan 2005 02:06:17 AM
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The Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 9
{9:1} Now indeed even the first[1] covenant had ordinances of divine
service, and an earthly sanctuary. {9:2} For a tabernacle was
prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the
show bread; which is called the Holy Place. {9:3} After the second
veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, {9:4}
having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid
on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna,
Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; {9:5} and
above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which
things we can't speak now in detail. {9:6} Now these things having
been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the services, {9:7} but 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. {9:8} The Holy
Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet
revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing; {9:9} which is
a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered
that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the
worshipper perfect; {9:10} being only (with meats and drinks and
various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of
reformation.
{9:11} But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good
things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with
hands, that is to say, not of this creation, {9:12} nor 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.
{9:13} For 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: {9:14} how much more will the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? {9:15} For
this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has
occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the
first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the
promise of the eternal inheritance. {9:16} For where a last will and
testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
{9:17} For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is
never in force while he who made it lives. {9:18} Therefore even the
first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. {9:19} For when
every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according
to the law, 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, {9:20} saying, "This is the blood of the covenant
which God has commanded you."[2]
{9:21} Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of
the ministry in like manner with the blood. {9:22} According to the
law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding
of blood there is no remission. {9:23} It 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.
{9:24} For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands,
which are representations 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
year by year with blood not his own, {9:26} or else he must have
suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the
end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. {9:27} Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once,
and after this, judgment, {9:28} so Christ also, having been offered
once to [3>]bear the sins of many,[<3] will appear a second time,
without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
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Footnotes:
[1] {9:1} TR adds "tabernacle"
[2] {9:20} Exodus 24:8
[3] {9:28} Isaiah 53:13
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