^{10 Ref} Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

^{11 Ref} But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

^{12 Ref} And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

^{13 Ref} For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:

^{14 Ref} How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

^{15 Ref} And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.