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16 For where there is a covenant, there is a necessity to bring forth the death of the one having made it. 17 For a covenant is firm upon death, since it is not in force at the time when the one having made it is living, 18 wherefore neither has the first been inaugurated without blood. 19 For on every commandment having been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, having taken the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God commanded to you?.” 21 And likewise he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the sacred service with blood. 22 And almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no forgiveness. 23 Therefore there was a necessity indeed for the representations of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ entered not into holy places made by hands, copies of the true ones, but into heaven itself, now to appear for us in the presence of God, 25 nor that He should offer Himself many times, just as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with the blood of another. 26 Otherwise it was necessary for Him to have suffered many times from the foundation of the world. But now He has been revealed once in the consummation of the ages for the putting away of sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And inasmuch as it is apportioned to men to die once, and after this, judgment, 28 so also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for a second time, apart from sin, to those eagerly awaiting Him for salvation. Hebrews 9:16-28, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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