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Chapter
9

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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;

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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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And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot
now speak particularly.

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Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the
first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

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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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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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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;

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Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal
ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

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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;

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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.

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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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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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For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the
testator.

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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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Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

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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.

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Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of
the ministry.

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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of
blood is no remission.

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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.

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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;

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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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And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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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.