Hebrews 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; Ex.
26.1-30 the first, wherein was the candlestick, Ex.
25.31-40 and the table, and the showbread; Ex.
25.23-30 which is called the sanctuary.
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And after the second veil, the tabernacle
which is called the holiest of all; Ex. 26.31-33
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which had the golden censer, Ex.
30.1-6 and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about
with gold, Ex. 25.10-16 wherein was the golden pot that had manna, Ex.
16.33 and Aaron's rod that budded, Num. 17.8-10 and the tables of the covenant; Ex. 25.16 · Deut. 10.3-5
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and over it the cherubim of glory
shadowing the mercy seat; Ex. 25.18-22 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. Num. 18.2-6
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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: Lev.
16.2-34
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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 a 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, Lev. 16.15, 16 and
the ashes of a heifer Num. 19.9--0.-19 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. Ex. 24.6-8
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Moreover he sprinkled likewise with blood
both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. Lev.
8.15
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And almost all things are by the law
purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. Lev. 17.11
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Sin Put Away by
Christ's Sacrifice |
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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.
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