18. Therefore, indeed, the first was not dedicated without blood.
19. For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to the entire people, he took up the blood of calves and goats, with water and with scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and the entire people,
20. saying: "This is the blood of the testament which God has commanded for you."
21. And even the tabernacle, and all the vessels for the ministry, he similarly sprinkled with blood.
22. And nearly everything, according to the law, is to be cleansed with blood. And without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.
23. Therefore, it is necessary for the examples of heavenly things to be cleansed, just as, indeed, these things were. Yet the heavenly things are themselves better sacrifices than these.
24. For Jesus did not enter by means of holy things made with hands, mere examples of the true things, but he entered into Heaven itself, so that he may appear now before the face of God for us.
25. And he did not enter so as to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies each year, with the blood of another.
26. Otherwise, he would need to have suffered repeatedly since the beginning of the world. But now, one time, at the consummation of the ages, he has appeared in order to destroy sin though his own sacrifice.
27. And in the same manner as it has been appointed for men to die one time, and after this, to be judged,
28. so also Christ was offered, one time, in order to empty the sins of so many. He shall appear a second time without sin, for those who await him, unto salvation.