1 The first covenant also had its laws governing worship and its sanctuary, a sanctuary on this earth.
2 There was a tent which comprised two compartments: the first, in which the lamp-stand, the table and the loaves of permanent offering were kept, was called the Holy Place;
3 then beyond the second veil, a second compartment which was called the Holy of Holies
4 to which belonged the gold altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant, plated all over with gold. In this were kept the gold jar containing the manna, Aaron's branch that grew the buds, and the tables of the covenant.
5 On top of it were the glorious winged creatures, overshadowing the throne of mercy. This is not the time to go into detail about this.
6 Under these provisions, priests go regularly into the outer tent to carry out their acts of worship,
7 but the second tent is entered only once a year, and then only by the high priest who takes in the blood to make an offering for his own and the people's faults of inadvertence.
8 By this, the Holy Spirit means us to see that as long as the old tent stands, the way into the holy place is not opened up;
9 it is a symbol for this present time. None of the gifts and sacrifices offered under these regulations can possibly bring any worshipper to perfection in his conscience;
10 they are rules about outward life, connected with food and drink and washing at various times, which are in force only until the time comes to set things right.
11 But now Christ has come, as the high priest of all the blessings which were to come. He has passed through the greater, the more perfect tent, not made by human hands, that is, not of this created order;
12 and he has entered the sanctuary once and for all, taking with him not the blood of goats and bull calves, but his own blood, having won an eternal redemption.
13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on those who have incurred defilement, may restore their bodily purity.
14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who offered himself, blameless as he was, to God through the eternal Spirit, purify our conscience from dead actions so that we can worship the living God.
15 This makes him the mediator of a new covenant, so that, now that a death has occurred to redeem the sins committed under an earlier covenant, those who have been called to an eternal inheritance may receive the promise.
16 Now wherever a will is in question, the death of the testator must be established;
17 a testament comes into effect only after a death, since it has no force while the testator is still alive.
18 That is why even the earlier covenant was inaugurated with blood,
19 and why, after Moses had promulgated all the commandments of the Law to the people, he took the calves' blood, the goats' blood and some water, and with these he sprinkled the book itself and all the people, using scarlet wool and hyssop;
20 saying as he did so: This is the blood of the covenant that God has made with you.
21 And he sprinkled both the tent and all the liturgical vessels with blood in the same way.
22 In fact, according to the Law, practically every purification takes place by means of blood; and if there is no shedding of blood, there is no remission.
23 Only the copies of heavenly things are purified in this way; the heavenly things themselves have to be purified by a higher sort of sacrifice than this.
24 It is not as though Christ had entered a man-made sanctuary which was merely a model of the real one; he entered heaven itself, so that he now appears in the presence of God on our behalf.
25 And he does not have to offer himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the sanctuary year after year with the blood that is not his own,
26 or else he would have had to suffer over and over again since the world began. As it is, he has made his appearance once and for all, at the end of the last age, to do away with sin by sacrificing himself.
27 Since human beings die only once, after which comes judgement,
28 so Christ too, having offered himself only once to bear the sin of many, will manifest himself a second time, sin being no more, to those who are waiting for him, to bring them salvation.
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Hebrews 9 deals mainly on the comparison between the Old Testament sacrifices system and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who offered himself as an eternal sacrifice. Moreover, the chapter also highlights the importance of blood in the remission of sins and the need for a single death to atone for the sins of all humanity.
Leviticus 17:11: "For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I will come to the altar to do atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that will make atonement by virtue of life." This verse emphasizes the importance of blood as a means of atonement for sins.
Hebrews 9:22: "And almost all things, according to the law, purify themselves with blood; and without bloodshed there is no remission." This verse reinforces the importance of blood in the remission of sins and highlights the need for a bloodshed sacrifice for remission.
Isaiah 53:5-6: "But he was wounded because of our transgressions, and ground because of our iniquities; the punishment that brings us peace was upon him, and by his footsteps we were healed. We all walked stray as sheep Each one wiped himself down his way, but the Lord has dropped upon him the iniquity of us all. " This verse describes the death of Jesus as a sacrifice for the sins of humanity, highlighting the importance of his death as an atonement for sins.
Hebrews 10:4: "For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to remove sins." This verse reinforces the idea that the Old Testament sacrifices system was not enough to atone for the sins, highlighting the need for a perfect sacrifice for remission.
Hebrews 10:10: "In which will have been sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ, made once and forever." This verse highlights the uniqueness of the sacrifice of Jesus, who offered himself as an eternal sacrifice to atone for the sins of humanity, emphasizing the superiority of Jesus' sacrifice in relation to the sacrifices of the Old Testament.
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