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tament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. for his own, and the people’s ignorance:
10 For this is the testament which I will make 8 The Holy Ghost signifying this, that the way
to the house of Israel after those days, saith the into the holies was not yet made manifest, whilst
Lord: I will give my laws into their mind, and in the former tabernacle was yet standing.
their heart will I write them: and I will be their 9 Which is a parable of the time present: ac-
God, and they shall be my people: cording to which gifts and sacrifices are offered,
11 And they shall not teach every man his which can not, as to the conscience, make him
neighbour and every man his brother, saying, perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,
Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the 10 And divers washings, and justices of the
least to the greatest of them: flesh laid on them until the time of correction.
12 Because I will be merciful to their iniqui- 11 But Christ, being come an high priest of
ties, and their sins I will remember no more. the good things to come, by a greater and more
13 Now in saying a new, he hath made the for- perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is,
mer old. And that which decayeth and groweth not of this creation:
old, is near its end. 12 Neither by the blood of goats, or of calves,
but by his own blood, entered once into the

Chapter 9 holies, having obtained eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and
The former indeed had also justifications of di- the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify
vine service, and a worldly sanctuary. such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh:
2 For there was a tabernacle made the first, 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ,
wherein were the candlesticks, and the table, and who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspot-
the setting forth of loaves, which is called the ted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead
holy. works, to serve the living God?
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle, 15 And therefore he is the mediator of the new
which is called the holy of holies: testament: that by means of his death, for the
4 Having a golden censer, and the ark of the redemption of those trangressions, which were
testament covered about on every part with gold, under the former testament, they that are called
in which was a golden pot that had manna, and may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
the rod of Aaron, that had blossomed, and the 16 For where there is a testament, the death
tables of the testament. of the testator must of necessity come in.
5 And over it were the cherubims of glory over- 17 For a testament is of force, after men are
shadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst
needful to speak now particularly. the testator liveth.
6 Now these things being thus ordered, into 18 Whereupon neither was the first indeed
the first tabernacle the priests indeed always en- dedicated without blood.
tered, accomplishing the offices of sacrifices. 19 For when every commandment of the law
7 But into the second, the high priest alone, had been read by Moses to all the people, he
once a year: not without blood, which he offereth took the blood of calves and goats, with water,