1The first promise that was made included rules for worship and a tent for worship here on earth.
2The first part of the tent was called the holy place, and a lampstand, a table, and the sacred loaves of bread were kept there.
3Behind the curtain was the most holy place. Then there was Aaron's walking stick that sprouted. Finally, there were the flat stones with the Ten Commandments written on them. opened out above the place of mercy.
Now isn't the time to go into detail about these things.
6But this is how everything was when the priests went each day into the first part of the tent to do their duties.
8All this is the Holy Spirit's way of saying that no one could enter the most holy place while the tent was still the place of worship.
9This also has a meaning for today. It shows that we cannot make our consciences clear by offering gifts and sacrifices.
10These rules are merely about such things as eating and drinking and ceremonies for washing ourselves. And rules about physical things will last only until the time comes to change them for something better.
11Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are now here. He also went into a much better tent that wasn't made by humans and that doesn't belong to this world.
12Then Christ went once for all into the most holy place and freed us from sin for ever. He did this by offering his own blood instead of the blood of goats and bulls.
13According to the Law of Moses, those people who become unclean are not fit to worship God. Yet they will be considered clean, if they are sprinkled with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a sacrificed calf. consciences clear. Now we can serve the living God and no longer do things that lead to death.
15Christ died to rescue those who had sinned and broken the old agreement. Now he brings his chosen ones a new agreement with its guarantee of God's eternal blessings!
16In fact, making an agreement of this kind is like writing a will. This is because the one who makes the will must die before it is of any use.
17In other words, a will doesn't go into effect as long as the one who made it is still alive.
18Blood was also used to put the first agreement into effect.
19Moses told the people all that the Law said they must do. Then he used red wool and a hyssop plant to sprinkle the people and the book of the Law with the blood of bulls and goats and with water.Jesus' sacrifice is once and for all
23These things are only copies of what is in heaven, and so they had to be made holy by these ceremonies. But the real things in heaven must be made holy by something better.
24This is why Christ did not go into a tent that had been made by humans and was only a copy of the real one. Instead, he went into heaven and is now there with God to help us.
25Christ did not have to offer himself many times. He wasn't like a high priest who goes into the most holy place each year to offer the blood of an animal.
26If he had offered himself every year, he would have suffered many times since the creation of the world. But instead, near the end of time he offered himself once and for all, so that he could be a sacrifice that does away with sin.
27We die only once, and then we are judged.
28So Christ died only once to take away the sins of many people. But when he comes again, it will not be to take away sin. He will come to save everyone who is waiting for him.
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