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Chapter 9 |
| 1 | Then verily
the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly
sanctuary. |
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| For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was
the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the
sanctuary. |
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| And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called
the Holiest of all; |
| 4 | Which had the golden censer, and the ark of
the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that
had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
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| 5 | And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we
cannot now speak particularly. |
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6 | Now when these things were thus
ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the
service of God. |
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7 | But into the second went the high priest alone once
every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors
of the people: |
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8 | The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into
the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was
yet standing: |
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9 | Which was a figure for the time then present, in
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did
the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; |
| 10 | Which stood
only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed
on them until the time of reformation. |
| 11 | But Christ being come an high
priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not
made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; |
| 12 | Neither by
the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the
holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. |
| 13 | For if the
blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: |
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14 | How much more shall the
blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to
God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? |
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And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of
death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first
testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal
inheritance. |
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16 | For where a testament is, there must also of
necessity be the death of the testator. |
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17 | For a testament is of
force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the
testator liveth. |
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18 | Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated
without blood. |
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19 | For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the
people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with
water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the
people, |
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| Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath
enjoined unto you. |
| 21 | Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the
tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. |
| 22 | And almost
all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is
no remission. |
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23 | It was therefore necessary that the patterns of
things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these. |
| 24 | For Christ
is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of
the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for
us: |
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Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; |
| 26 | For
then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now
once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. |
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27 | And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but
after this the judgment: |
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28 | So Christ was once offered to bear the
sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time
without sin unto salvation. |
