The Koine Bible

The first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

For the first tent was prepared, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence, which is called Holy.

And after the second curtain, the tent called the Holy of Holies,

having a golden censer and the ark of the covenant covered all around with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna and Aaron’s rod that budded and the tablets of the covenant,

Above it, the cherubim of glory overshadowing the atonement cover; concerning these things it is not now possible to speak in detail.

Now when these things have been arranged in this way, the priests enter regularly into the first tent performing the services,

But into the second [room] once a year only the high priest, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorance of the people,

This indicates the Spirit of the Holy One, that the way into the holy place has not yet been revealed while the first tent still has a standing,

which is a parable for the present time, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience,

only concerning foods and drinks and various washings, regulations of the flesh imposed until a time of correction approaches.

But Christ, having appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

Nor through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, he entered once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctifies for the purification of the flesh,

How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

And for this reason, he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For where there is a covenant, the death of the one who made it is necessary.

For a will is established over the dead, since it has no power while the one who made it lives.

Therefore, not even the first was inaugurated without blood.

For when every command according to the law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded you.

And the tent and all the utensils of the ministry he likewise sprinkled with blood.

And almost everything is purified with blood according to the law, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter into handmade holy places, which are copies of the true ones, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

Nor to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy place every year with the blood of another,

Since it was necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now once at the end of the ages, he has appeared to put away sin by his sacrifice.

And just as it is appointed for people to die once, and after this comes judgment,

So also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time without sin to those who are waiting for him for salvation.