20. saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which Elohim commanded you.”
21. And in the same way he sprinkled with blood both the Tent and all the vessels of the service.
22. And, according to the Torah, almost all is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23. It was necessary, then, that the copies of the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones themselves with better slaughter offerings than these.
24. For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart Place made by hand – figures of the true – but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of Elohim on our behalf,
25. not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the Set-apart Place year by year with blood not his own.
26. For if so, He would have had to suffer often, since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the offering of Himself.