¹⁵And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, because^* a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions committed during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. ¹⁶For where there is a will, it is a necessity for the death of the one who made the will to be established. ¹⁷For a will is in force concerning those who are dead, since it is never in force when the one who made the will is alive. ¹⁸Therefore not even the first covenant was ratified without blood. ¹⁹For when^* every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves^c with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, ²⁰saying,

“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you.”^d

²¹And likewise he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the utensils of service with the blood. ²²Indeed, nearly everything is purified with blood according to the law, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

²³Therefore it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf, ²⁵and not in order that he can offer himself many times, as the high priest enters into the sanctuary year by year^e with blood not his own, ²⁶since it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now he has appeared once at the end of the ages for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷And just as^f it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment, ²⁸thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation.

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Hebrews 9:22: Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Footnotes

*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“has taken place”) which is understood as causal
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal participle (“had been spoken”)
cSome manuscripts have “calves and goats”
dA quotation from Exod 24:8
eLiterally “according to year”
fLiterally “in as much as”