^{1 Ref} For the law having a shadow of the good `things' to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.

^{2 Ref} Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

^{3 Ref} But in those `sacrifices' there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.

^{4 Ref} For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

^{5 Ref} Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;

^{1 Ref} For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

^{2 Ref} Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

^{3 Ref} But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.

^{4 Ref} For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

^{5 Ref} Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, But a body did you prepare for me;

^{1 Ref} For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

^{2 Ref} For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

^{3 Ref} But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

^{4 Ref} Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

^{5 Ref} So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;