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16 For where a will, the necessity for the death of him having willed to be brought forward. 17 For a will is firm by the dead: since it has no power when he having willed lives. 18 Wherefore neither was the first consecrated without blood. 19 For every command spoken according to law by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of calves and he-goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and also the book, and he sprinkled all the people, 20 Saying, This the blood of the covenant which God enjoined to you. 21 And also the tent, and all the vessels of the service, he poured all over likewise with blood. 22 And almost all things are purified according to the law with blood; and without blood-letting there is no remission. 23 Therefore truly a necessity for the patterns of things in the heavens to be purified with these; and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ came not into the holy places made with hands, the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to be shown clearly to the face of God for us: 25 Neither that he should offer himself many times, as the chief priest comes in to the holy places yearly with blood pertaining to others; 26 (Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly. 27 And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment: 28 So Christ, once offered to have borne the sins of many, of the second time, without sin, shall be seen to them expecting him for salvation. Hebrews 9:16-28, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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