Modern Literal Version
[Hebrews 9]
9:1 Now even the first tabernacle had ordinances of divine service to God and its holy-place, a worldly one. 9:2 For* the first tabernacle was prepared which is called holy, in which were the lamp-stand and the table and the showbread. 9:3 But, the tabernacle which is called the holy of holies was after the second curtain; 9:4 holding a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant* covered around in every side with gold, in which was the golden jar holding the manna and Aaron's rod which had sprouted and the tablets of the covenant*; 9:5 and up above it thecherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which things it is now not the timeto speak of them individually.
9:6 Now these things having thus always been prepared, the priests go into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the divine services to God; 9:7 but into the second the high-priest went alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and on behalf of the sins of ignorance of the people. 9:8 The Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the holy-places has still not been made manifest, while the first tabernacle still has a standing. 9:9 This tabernacle,(which is a figure toward the present time); according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, according to the conscience, perfect he who is giving-divine service toGod, 9:10 being only fleshly ordinances, (with foods, drinks and assorted ceremonial washings*), laid upon us till a time of reformation.
9:11 But Christ having come as a high-priest of the future good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made* with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 9:12 nor yet through the blood of he-goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy-place, having found eternal redemption. 9:13 For* if the blood of he-goats and oxen and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those who have been desecrated, sanctify for the cleanness of the flesh; 9:14 how much more the blood of Christ, (who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God), will cleanse your* conscience from dead works, *that* you may give-divine service to the living God.
9:15 And because of this, he is the intermediary of a {F} new covenant*, *that his death having happened *for the redemption of the transgressions that were against the first {F} covenant*, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 9:16 For* where a {F}covenant* is, there must be of necessity the death of him who covenanted it. 9:17 For* a {F}covenant* is steadfast upon death; since it is never* in power while he who covenanted it is living.9:18 Hence even the first covenant* has not been dedicated without blood. 9:19 For* when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the he-goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 9:20 saying, НThis is the blood of the covenant* which God commanded toward you*.М {Ex. 24:8} 9:21 Now likewise he sprinkled the tabernacle with the blood and all the vessels of the ministry*. 9:22 And according to the law, I may say, almost all things are cleansed with blood and no forgiveness happens without the shedding of blood.
9:23 Therefore it was a necessity that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 9:24 For* Christ did not enter into a holy-place made* with hands, a counterpart to the true one; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God on our behalf. 9:25 Nor did he enter that* he should offer himself often, as the high-priest enters into the holy-place year by year with another's blood; 9:26since it was often essential for him to suffer from the conception of the world; but now once upon the end of the ages, he has been manifested *for the nullifying of sin through the sacrifice of himself. 9:27 And inasmuch as it is laid up for men to die once and after this is the judgment; 9:28 so Christ, (having been offered once, *that* he should carry the sins of many), will also appear a second time, separate from sin, to those who wait for him, *for salvation.
{Footnotes: Heb 9:15-17 SEE 7:22 footnote or Appendix.}
Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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