Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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.