Heb.9.1

That first plan contained directions for worship, and a specially designed place of worship.

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Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.

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Then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary.

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Now in that first covenant between God and Israel, there were regulations for worship and a sacred tent here on earth.

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A large outer tent was set up. The lampstand, the table, and "the bread of presence" were placed in it. This was called "the Holy Place."

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A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand, the table and the consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place.

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For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary;

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There were two rooms in this tent. In the first room were a lampstand, a table, and loaves of holy bread on the table. This was called the Holy Place.

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Then a curtain was stretched, and behind it a smaller, inside tent set up. This was called "the Holy of Holies."

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Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,

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and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All,

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Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second room called the Most Holy Place.

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In it were placed the gold incense altar and the gold-covered ark of the covenant containing the gold urn of manna, Aaron's rod that budded, the covenant tablets,

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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.

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which had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

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In that room were a gold incense altar and a wooden chest called the Ark of the Covenant, which was covered with gold on all sides. Inside the Ark were a gold jar containing some manna, Aaron's staff that sprouted leaves, and the stone tablets of the covenant with the Ten Commandments written on them.

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and the angel-wing-shadowed mercy seat. But we don't have time to comment on these now.

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Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

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and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.

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The glorious cherubim were above the Ark. Their wings were stretched out over the Ark's cover, the place of atonement. But we cannot explain all of these things now.

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After this was set up, the priests went about their duties in the large tent.

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When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry.

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Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services.

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When these things were all in place, the priests went in and out of the first room regularly as they performed their religious duties.

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Only the high priest entered the smaller, inside tent, and then only once a year, offering a blood sacrifice for his own sins and the people's accumulated sins.

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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.

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But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins committed in ignorance;

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But only the high priest goes into the Most Holy Place, and only once a year, and always with blood, which he offers to God to cover his own sins and the sins the people have committed in ignorance.

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This was the Holy Spirit's way of showing with a visible parable that as long as the large tent stands, people can't just walk in on God.

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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 standing.

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the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.

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By these regulations the Holy Spirit revealed that the Most Holy Place was not open to the people as long as the first room and the entire system it represents were still in use.

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Under this system, the gifts and sacrifices can't really get to the heart of the matter, can't assuage the conscience of the people,

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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.

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It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience--

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This is an illustration pointing to the present time. For the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of the people who bring them.

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but are limited to matters of ritual and behavior. It's essentially a temporary arrangement until a complete overhaul could be made.

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They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings--external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

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concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

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For that old system deals only with food and drink and ritual washing--external regulations that are in effect only until their limitations can be corrected.

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But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven's "tent"--the true Holy Place--once and for all.

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When Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, not a part of this creation.

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But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

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So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that great, perfect sanctuary in heaven, not made by human hands and not part of this created world.

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He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all.

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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, having obtained eternal redemption.

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Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

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Once for all time he took blood into that Most Holy Place, but not the blood of goats and calves. He took his own blood, and with it he secured our salvation forever.

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If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior,

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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.

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For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,

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Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people's bodies from ritual defilement.

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think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out.

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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!

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how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our hearts from deeds that lead to death so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.

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Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.

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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.

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And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

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That is why he is the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, so that all who are invited can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.