^{2 Ref} For there was a tabernacle prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

^{3 Ref} After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

^{4 Ref} 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 tables of the covenant;

^{5 Ref} and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can't now speak in detail.

^{6 Ref} Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

^{7 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;

^{10 Ref} being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

^{11 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

^{15 Ref} 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.