008:012 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."{Jeremiah 31:31-34} 008:013 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away. 009:001 Now indeed even the first{TR adds "tabernacle"} covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. 009:002 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place. 009:003 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, 009:004 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 tablets of the covenant; 009:005 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can't speak now in detail. 009:006 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, 009:007 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. 009:008 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing; 009:009 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; 009:010 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. 009:011 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, 009:012 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. 009:013 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: 009:014 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? 009:015 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. 009:016 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.