1 The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one.
2 For a tabernacle was set up; the first, in which {were} both the candlestick and the table and the exposition of the loaves, which is called Holy;
3 but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies,
4 having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which {were} the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant;
5 and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now {the time} to speak in detail.
6 Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests enter at all times, accomplishing the services;
7 but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people:
8 the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the {holy of} holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has {its} standing;
9 the which {is} an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,
10 {consisting} only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until {the} time of setting things right.
11 But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,)
12 nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the {holy of} holies, having found an eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,
14 how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship {the} living God?
15 And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 (For where {there is} a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in.
17 For a testament {is} of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.)
18 Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.
19 For every commandment having been spoken according to {the} law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, 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 has enjoined to you.
21 And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood;
22 and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.
23 {It was} necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.
24 For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
25 nor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;
26 since he had {then} been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for {the} putting away of sin by his sacrifice.
27 And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;
28 thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation.
1 前约也有它敬拜的规例， 和属世界的圣所。
2 因为有一个支搭好了的会幕， 第一进叫作圣所， 里面有灯台、桌子和陈设饼。
3 在第二层幔子后面还有一个会幕， 叫作至圣所，
4 里面有金香坛， 有全部包金的约柜， 柜里有盛着吗哪的金罐、亚伦那发过芽的杖和两块约板。
5 柜的上面有荣耀的基路伯罩着施恩座， 关于这一切， 现在不能一一细说了。
6 这一切物件都这样预备好了， 祭司就常常进入第一进会幕， 执行敬拜的事。
7 至于第二进会幕， 只有大祭司一年一次独自进去， 并且非带着血不可， 好为自己和人民的愚妄把血献上。
8 圣灵借着这事表明， 当第一进会幕存在的时候， 进入至圣所的路， 还没有显明出来。
9 这第一进会幕是现今的时代的预表， 其实所献的礼物和祭品， 都不能使敬拜的人在良心上得到完全。
10 这些只是关于饮食和各样洁净的礼仪， 是在"更新的时候"来到之前， 为肉体立的规例。
11 但基督已经来了， 作了已经实现的美好事物的大祭司； 他经过更大、更完备的会幕（不是人手所做的， 也就是不属于这被造的世界的）。
12 他不是用山羊和牛犊的血， 而是用自己的血， 只一次进了至圣所， 就得到了永远的救赎。
13 如果山羊和公牛的血， 以及母牛犊的灰， 洒在不洁的人身上， 尚且可以使他们成为圣洁， 身体洁净，
14 何况基督的血呢？他借着永远的灵， 把自己无瑕无疵的献给 神， 他的血不是更能洁净我们的良心脱离死行， 使我们可以事奉永活的 神吗？
15 因此， 他作了新约的中保， 借着他的死， 使人在前约之下的过犯得到救赎， 就叫那些蒙召的人， 得着永远基业的应许。
16 凡有遗嘱（"遗嘱"或译： "约"， 与17节同）， 必须证实立遗嘱的人死了；
17 因为人死了， 遗嘱才能确立， 立遗嘱的人还活着的时候， 遗嘱决不生效。
18 因此， 前约并不是没有用血立的：
19 当日摩西按照律法， 向所有人民宣布了各样的诫命， 就拿牛犊（好些抄本在此有"和山羊"）的血和水， 用朱红色的羊毛与牛膝草， 洒在律法书上和人民身上，
20 说： "这就是 神规定你们立约的血。"
21 他照样把血洒在会幕和各样应用的器皿上。
22 按着律法， 几乎所有都是用血洁净的， 如果没有流血， 就没有赦免。
23 照着天上样式作的既然必须这样去洁净， 天上物体的本身， 就应该用更美的祭品去洁净了。
24 因为基督不是进了人手所做的圣所（那不过是真圣所的表象）， 而是进到天上， 现在替我们显露在 神的面前。
25 他不必多次把自己献上， 好像大祭司每年带着不是自己的血进入至圣所一样。
26 如果这样， 他从创世以来， 就必须受许多次的苦了。可是现在他在这世代的终结， 只显现一次， 把自己作为祭品献上， 好除掉罪。
27 按着定命， 人人都要死一次， 死后还有审判。
28 照样， 基督为了担当许多人的罪， 也曾经一次把自己献上； 将来他还要再一次显现， 不是为担当罪， 而是要向那些热切期待他的人成全救恩。