Hebrews 9:1-14

¹Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. ²For there was a tent prepared, the first, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. ³After the second veil, the tent which is called the Holy of Holies, ⁴having 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 tables of the covenant; <sup>5</sup>and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can`t now speak in detail. ⁶Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tent, accomplishing the services, ⁷but 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. ⁸The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the Holy Place has not yet been revealed, while the first tent is yet standing; ⁹which is an illustration of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect; ¹⁰being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

¹¹But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, ¹²nor 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. ¹³For 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: ¹⁴how 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?