9. And this is a parable for the present time. Accordingly, those gifts and sacrifices that are offered are not able, as concerns the conscience, to make perfect those things that serve only as food and drink,
10. as well as the various washings and justices of the flesh, which were imposed upon them until the time of correction.
11. But Christ, standing as the High Priest of future good things, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, one not made by hand, that is, not of this creation,
12. entered once into the Holy of Holies, having obtained eternal redemption, neither by the blood of goats, nor of calves, but by his own blood.
13. For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the ashes of a calf, when these are sprinkled, sanctify those who have been defiled, in order to cleanse the flesh,
14. how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit has offered himself, immaculate, to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, in order to serve the living God?
15. And thus he is the Mediator of the new testament, so that, by his death, he intercedes for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, so that those who have been called may receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.
16. For where there is a testament, it is necessary for the death of the one who testifies to intervene.
17. For a testament is confirmed by death. Otherwise, it as yet has no force, as long as the one who testifies lives.
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.