And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God's angels worship him.”

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,

and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.

He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

The Earthly Holy Place

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.

For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.

These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,

By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.

then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,