Hebrews 9:17–28

¹⁷for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth, ¹⁸whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated, ¹⁹for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle, ²⁰saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,’ ²¹and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle, ²²and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

²³It is necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these; ²⁴for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter—figures of the true—but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us; ²⁵nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others; ²⁶since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested; ²⁷and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this—judgment, ²⁸so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him—to salvation!

Chapter 10