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10 The law is only an ·unclear picture [L shadow] of the good things coming in the future; it is not the ·real thing [reality itself; true image of them]. The people under the law offer the same sacrifices every year, but these sacrifices can never make perfect those who come near to worship God. If the law could make them perfect, the sacrifices would have already ·stopped [ceased; been abolished]. The worshipers would ·be made clean [L have been cleansed/purified once for all; C forever], and they would no longer have a ·sense of [consciousness of; feeling of guilt about] sin. But these sacrifices remind them of their sins every year, because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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10 For gar since echō the ho law nomos is echō but a shadow skia of the ho good agathos things to come mellō and not ou the ho actual autos form eikōn of those ho realities pragma, it can dynamai never oudepote perfect teleioō those ho who draw near proserchomai by the ho same autos sacrifices thusia which hos they offer prospherō continuously eis ho · ho year after kata year eniautos. For epei otherwise would an they not ou have ceased pauō being offered prospherō, since dia the ho worshipers latreuō, once hapax cleansed katharizō, would have echō no mēdeis consciousness syneidēsis of sins hamartia? But alla in en these autos sacrifices there is a reminder anamnēsis of sins hamartia year after kata year eniautos. For gar it is impossible adynatos for the blood haima of bulls tauros and kai goats tragos to take away aphaireō sins hamartia.

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