³ Then Moses came and reported to the people all the words of the Lord and all the ^[a]ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, “^(A)All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do!” ⁴ And ^(B)Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he got up early in the morning, and built an ^(C)altar ^[b]at the foot of the mountain with twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵ And he sent young men of the sons of Israel, ^(D)and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as peace offerings to the Lord. ^6 (E)Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷ Then he took ^(F)the Book of the Covenant and read it ^[c]as the people listened; and they said, “^(G)All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient!” ⁸ So ^(H)Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold ^(I)the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has ^[d]made with you ^[e]in accordance with all these words.”

²⁰ Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless the Lord your God.” And ^(A)all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and ^(B)bowed down and paid ^[a]homage to the Lord and the king.

Sacrifices

²¹ On the next day ^(C)they ^[b]made sacrifices to the Lord and offered burnt offerings to the Lord, a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel. ²² So they ate and drank that day before the Lord with great gladness.

Solomon Again Made King

And they made Solomon the son of David king ^(D)a second time, and they ^(E)anointed him as ruler for the Lord and Zadok as priest. ²³ Then ^(F)Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king instead of his father David; and he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him. ²⁴ And all the officials, the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David ^[c]pledged allegiance to King Solomon. ^25 (G)The Lord highly honored Solomon in the sight of all Israel, and ^(H)bestowed on him royal majesty which had not been bestowed on any king before him in Israel.

¹⁹ For when every commandment had been ^(A)spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, ^(B)he took the ^(C)blood of the calves and the goats, with ^(D)water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both ^(E)the book itself and all the people, ²⁰ saying, “^(F)This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.” ²¹ And in the same way he ^(G)sprinkled both the ^[a]tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood. ²² And ^(H)almost all things are cleansed with blood, according to the Law, and ^(I)without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

²³ Therefore it was necessary for the ^(J)copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these things, but ^(K)the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

One Sacrifice of Christ Is Sufficient

10 For the Law, since it has only ^(A)a shadow of ^(B)the good things to come and not the ^[a]form of those things itself, ^[b]can ^(C)never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually every year, ^(D)make those who approach perfect.

²⁸ By faith he ^[a](A)kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that ^(B)the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch them.