3. And after the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
4. which had a golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, in which was the golden urn that had the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the testament,
5. and over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the seat of reconciliation, of which we cannot now speak particularly.
6. Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
7. But into the second the high priest went alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for his own ignorance, and for that of the people:
8. The Holy Spirit signifying in this, that the way into the sanctuary was not yet made manifest, as long as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9. Which was a figure of that time present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience,
10. but in foods and drinks and different washings and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of correction.
11. But Christ being now come, high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
12. neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the sanctuary designed for eternal redemption.
13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of the flesh,
14. how much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from the works of death to serve the living God?
15. And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, so that death intervening for the redemption of the rebellions that took place under the first testament, those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity intervene the death of the testator.
17. For a testament is confirmed by the death: otherwise it is not valid as long as the testator lives.
18. From which came that not even the first one was dedicated without blood.