6. And these having been prepared like this, the priests always went into the first part of the Tent, accomplishing the services.
7. But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for sins of ignorance of the people,
8. the Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent has a standing,
9. which was a parable for the present time in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience,
10. only as to foods and drinks, and different washings, and fleshly regulations imposed until a time of setting matters straight.
11. But Messiah, having become a High Priest of the coming good matters, through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,
12. entered into the Most Set-apart Place once for all, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood, having obtained everlasting redemption.
13. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sets apart for the cleansing of the flesh,
14. how much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim?
15. And because of this He is the Mediator of a renewed covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance.
16. For where a covenant is, it is necessary for the death of the covenanted one to be established.
17. For a covenant over those dead is firm, since it is never valid while the covenanted one is living.
18. Therefore not even the first covenant was instituted without blood.