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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
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