9:22 almost everything. The tent and its furniture were so closely identified with the worshipers who met God there that the sacrificial blood needed for the worshipers to be forgiven (10:18) was also required to cleanse the instruments and environment of their worship (Lev. 16:16).

without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. This is the fundamental principle (Lev. 17:11), now restated after being introduced in vv. 16–18. Having established it, the writer turns his attention from the earthly sanctuary to the heavenly.