8. The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.
9. This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.
10. They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
11. But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,
12. and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.
13. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,
14. how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
15. And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.
16. For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.
17. For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.
18. So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.