12. He entered into the Holies once for all—not by the blood of goats and calves but by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.
13. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,
14. how much more will the blood of Messiah—who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God—cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15. For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that those called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—since a death has taken place that redeems them from violations under the first covenant.
16. For where there is a covenant, the death of the one who made it must be established.
17. For a covenant is secured upon the basis of dead bodies, since it has no strength as long as the one who made it lives.
18. That is why not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
19. For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Torah, he took the blood of the calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.
20. He said, “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.”
21. And in the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.
22. And nearly everything is purified in blood according to the Torah, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23. Therefore it was necessary for the replicas of these heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices—but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.