1 Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary. 2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread, which is called the Holy Place. 3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, 4 having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; 5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.
6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, 7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people. 8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing. 9 This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect, 10 being only (with foods and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, 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 to the cleanness of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it. 17 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. 18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
21 He sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood. 22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, 26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, 28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
1 前约也有它敬拜的规例， 和属世界的圣所。
2 因为有一个支搭好了的会幕， 第一进叫作圣所， 里面有灯台、桌子和陈设饼。
3 在第二层幔子后面还有一个会幕， 叫作至圣所，
4 里面有金香坛， 有全部包金的约柜， 柜里有盛着吗哪的金罐、亚伦那发过芽的杖和两块约板。
5 柜的上面有荣耀的基路伯罩着施恩座， 关于这一切， 现在不能一一细说了。
6 这一切物件都这样预备好了， 祭司就常常进入第一进会幕， 执行敬拜的事。
7 至于第二进会幕， 只有大祭司一年一次独自进去， 并且非带着血不可， 好为自己和人民的愚妄把血献上。
8 圣灵借着这事表明， 当第一进会幕存在的时候， 进入至圣所的路， 还没有显明出来。
9 这第一进会幕是现今的时代的预表， 其实所献的礼物和祭品， 都不能使敬拜的人在良心上得到完全。
10 这些只是关于饮食和各样洁净的礼仪， 是在"更新的时候"来到之前， 为肉体立的规例。
11 但基督已经来了， 作了已经实现的美好事物的大祭司； 他经过更大、更完备的会幕（不是人手所做的， 也就是不属于这被造的世界的）。
12 他不是用山羊和牛犊的血， 而是用自己的血， 只一次进了至圣所， 就得到了永远的救赎。
13 如果山羊和公牛的血， 以及母牛犊的灰， 洒在不洁的人身上， 尚且可以使他们成为圣洁， 身体洁净，
14 何况基督的血呢？他借着永远的灵， 把自己无瑕无疵的献给 神， 他的血不是更能洁净我们的良心脱离死行， 使我们可以事奉永活的 神吗？
15 因此， 他作了新约的中保， 借着他的死， 使人在前约之下的过犯得到救赎， 就叫那些蒙召的人， 得着永远基业的应许。
16 凡有遗嘱（"遗嘱"或译： "约"， 与17节同）， 必须证实立遗嘱的人死了；
17 因为人死了， 遗嘱才能确立， 立遗嘱的人还活着的时候， 遗嘱决不生效。
18 因此， 前约并不是没有用血立的：
19 当日摩西按照律法， 向所有人民宣布了各样的诫命， 就拿牛犊（好些抄本在此有"和山羊"）的血和水， 用朱红色的羊毛与牛膝草， 洒在律法书上和人民身上，
20 说： "这就是 神规定你们立约的血。"
21 他照样把血洒在会幕和各样应用的器皿上。
22 按着律法， 几乎所有都是用血洁净的， 如果没有流血， 就没有赦免。
23 照着天上样式作的既然必须这样去洁净， 天上物体的本身， 就应该用更美的祭品去洁净了。
24 因为基督不是进了人手所做的圣所（那不过是真圣所的表象）， 而是进到天上， 现在替我们显露在 神的面前。
25 他不必多次把自己献上， 好像大祭司每年带着不是自己的血进入至圣所一样。
26 如果这样， 他从创世以来， 就必须受许多次的苦了。可是现在他在这世代的终结， 只显现一次， 把自己作为祭品献上， 好除掉罪。
27 按着定命， 人人都要死一次， 死后还有审判。
28 照样， 基督为了担当许多人的罪， 也曾经一次把自己献上； 将来他还要再一次显现， 不是为担当罪， 而是要向那些热切期待他的人成全救恩。