Old/New Testament

The First Covenant Allowed Entrance Into The Holy of Holies Once a Year

9 Now indeed, the first covenant also had regulations of service and the earthly Holy Place. ² For the first^[a] tabernacle was prepared^[b]— in which were both the lampstand and the table, and the Presentation of the bread— which is called the Holies. ³ And behind the second curtain was the tabernacle being called the Holies of Holies, ⁴ having a golden altar-of-incense^[c], and the ark^[d] of the covenant having been covered on-all-sides with gold, in which was a golden jar having the manna and the rod of Aaron having budded and the tablets of the covenant, ⁵ and above it were the cherubim^[e] of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat^[f]— concerning which things there is not time now to be speaking in detail. ⁶ And these things thus having been prepared, the priests accomplishing the services are continually going into the first tabernacle. ⁷ But into the second only the high priest goes once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and the ignorances^[g] of the people—

God Was Making Clear That The Way Into The Holies Was Not Yet Revealed

⁸ ... the Holy Spirit making this clear: that the way of ^[h] the Holies has not yet been made-known while the first tabernacle^[i] was^[j] still having^[k] a standing, ⁹ which^[l] is^[m] a symbol for the present^[n] time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered not being able to perfect the one worshiping in relation to the conscience, ¹⁰ being^[o] only (in-addition-to foods and drinks and different cleansings^[p]) regulations of ^[q] flesh being imposed until the time of reformation.

But Christ Entered The True Holy of Holies Once For All And Obtained Redemption

¹¹ But Christ, having arrived^[r] as High Priest of the good things having come, entered^[s] once-for-all into the Holies through^[t] the greater and more-perfect tabernacle not made-by-human-hands— that is, not of this creation; ¹² and not through^[u] the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, having obtained^[v] eternal redemption.

For Through The Spirit He Offered Himself Without Blemish To God

¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the ones having been defiled sanctifies for the cleansing of the flesh, ¹⁴ by how much more will the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit^[w] offered Himself without-blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works so that we may worship^[x] the living God!

Thus Christ Mediates a New Covenant Inaugurated By His Own Blood

¹⁵ And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that the ones having been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance— a death having taken-place for the redemption from the transgressions committed under^[y] the first covenant. ¹⁶ For where there is a will^[z], it is a necessity that the death of the one having made-the-will be brought-forth. ¹⁷ For a will over dead ones is firm, since it does not ever have [legal] power when the one having made-the-will is living. ¹⁸ Hence, not even the first covenant has been inaugurated^[aa] without blood. ¹⁹ For every commandment having been spoken to all the people by Moses according-to^[ab] the Law— having taken the blood of the calves and the goats along with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰ saying “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you” [Ex 24:8]. ²¹ And he likewise sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the objects of the ministry. ²² Indeed according-to^[ac] the Law almost everything is cleansed^[ad] with blood, and forgiveness does not take-place^[ae] apart-from blood-shedding^[af]. ²³ Therefore it was a necessity that the copies^[ag] of the things in the heavens be cleansed with these^[ah] things— but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

He Entered The Heavenly Temple

²⁴ For Christ did not enter into the Holies made-by-human-hands— copies of the true things— but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

He Offered Himself Once For All As a Sacrifice To Set Aside Sin

²⁵ Nor did He enter in order that He might offer Himself often— as indeed the high priest enters into the Holies yearly with the blood belonging-to-another— ²⁶ otherwise He would had-to-have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once-for-all at the conclusion^[ai] of the ages for the setting-aside of sin by the sacrifice^[aj] of Himself.

He Will Appear To Us a Second Time For Salvation

²⁷ And just as it is destined for people to die once and after this comes the judgment, ²⁸ so also^[ak] Christ, having been offered once so as to bear^[al] the sins of many, will appear for a second time without reference to sin to the ones eagerly-awaiting Him, for salvation.