1 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.2 A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place.3 Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,4 which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.5 Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.6 When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry.7 But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.8 The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning.9 This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.10 They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings —external regulations applying until the time of the new order.11 But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, "he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation.12 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining "eternal redemption.13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, "so that we may serve the living God!15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance —now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.16 In the case of a will, "it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it,17 because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.18 This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.19 When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people.20 He said, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep." [^5]21 In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies.22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.23 It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence.25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.26 Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

1 ثم العهد الاول كان له فرائض خدمة والقدس العالمي.2 لانه نصب المسكن الاول الذي يقال له القدس الذي كان فيه المنارة والمائدة وخبز التقدمة.3 ووراء الحجاب الثاني المسكن الذي يقال له قدس الاقداس4 فيه مبخرة من ذهب وتابوت العهد مغشّى من كل جهة بالذهب الذي فيه قسط من ذهب فيه المنّ وعصا هرون التي افرخت ولوحا العهد.5 وفوقه كروبا المجد مظللين الغطاء. اشياء ليس لنا الآن ان نتكلم عنها بالتفصيل.6 ثم اذ صارت هذه مهيأة هكذا يدخل الكهنة الى المسكن الاول كل حين صانعين الخدمة.7 واما الى الثاني فرئيس الكهنة فقط مرة في السنة ليس بلا دم يقدمه عن نفسه وعن جهالات الشعب8 معلنا الروح القدس بهذا ان طريق الاقداس لم يظهر بعد ما دام المسكن الاول له اقامة9 الذي هو رمز للوقت الحاضر الذي فيه تقدم قرابين وذبائح لا يمكن من جهة الضمير ان تكمّل الذي يخدم10 وهي قائمة باطعمة واشربة وغسلات مختلفة وفرائض جسدية فقط موضوعة الى وقت الاصلاح.11 واما المسيح وهو قد جاء رئيس كهنة للخيرات العتيدة فبالمسكن الاعظم والاكمل غير المصنوع بيد اي الذي ليس من هذه الخليقة12 وليس بدم تيوس وعجول بل بدم نفسه دخل مرة واحدة الى الاقداس فوجد فداء ابديا.13 لانه ان كان دم ثيران وتيوس ورماد عجلة مرشوش على المنجسين يقدس الى طهارة الجسد14 فكم بالحري يكون دم المسيح الذي بروح ازلي قدم نفسه للّه بلا عيب يطهر ضمائركم من اعمال ميتة لتخدموا الله الحي15 ولاجل هذا هو وسيط عهد جديد لكي يكون المدعوون اذ صار موت لفداء التعديات التي في العهد الاول ينالون وعد الميراث الابدي.16 لانه حيث توجد وصية يلزم بيان موت الموصي.17 لان الوصية ثابتة على الموتى اذ لا قوة لها البتة ما دام الموصي حيا.18 فمن ثم الاول ايضا لم يكرس بلا دم19 لان موسى بعدما كلم جميع الشعب بكل وصية بحسب الناموس اخذ دم العجول والتيوس مع ماء وصوفا قرمزيا وزوفا ورشّ الكتاب نفسه وجميع الشعب20 قائلا هذا هو دم العهد الذي اوصاكم الله به.21 والمسكن ايضا وجميع آنية الخدمة رشها كذلك بالدم.22 وكل شيء تقريبا يتطهر حسب الناموس بالدم وبدون سفك دم لا تحصل مغفرة23 فكان يلزم ان امثلة الاشياء التي في السموات تطهر بهذه واما السماويات عينها فبذبائح افضل من هذه.24 لان المسيح لم يدخل الى اقداس مصنوعة بيد اشباه الحقيقية بل الى السماء عينها ليظهر الآن امام وجه الله لاجلنا.25 ولا ليقدم نفسه مرارا كثيرة كما يدخل رئيس الكهنة الى الاقداس كل سنة بدم آخر26 فاذ ذاك كان يجب ان يتألم مرارا كثيرة منذ تأسيس العالم ولكنه الآن قد اظهر مرة عند انقضاء الدهور ليبطل الخطية بذبيحة نفسه.27 وكما وضع للناس ان يموتوا مرة ثم بعد ذلك الدينونة28 هكذا المسيح ايضا بعدما قدّم مرة لكي يحمل خطايا كثيرين سيظهر ثانية بلا خطية للخلاص للذين ينتظرونه