9: 2 For there was a 107tabernacle room prepared, the first, wherein 108were the lampstand, and the table, and 109the showbread110; which is called the Holy.
107Gk. tent (and similarly below)
108Or, are (no verb in the Greek; hence in italics)
109Gk. the setting forth of the loaves;
110B almost alone adds , and the golden altar; (or, censer;) See Ex 30:1-5. (transposed from vs. 4)
9: 3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle room which is called 111the Holy of holies;
111Or, the Most Holy;
9: 4 having 112a golden 113censer of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein 114was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod 115that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
112B almost alone omits a golden censer of incense, and (transposed to vs. 2)
113Or, altar (however, the incense altar was not solid gold, but overlaid with gold like the ark of the covenant). Cf. Ex 25:38, Lv 16:12, 2Chr 26:19.
114Or, is
115B alone omits that budded
9: 5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing 116the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally.
116Gk. the propitiatory;
9: 6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle room, accomplishing the services;
9: 7 but into the second the high priest alone goeth, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the 117errors of the people:
117Gk. ignorances Cf. Ecclus. 23:2f. (Apocrypha)
9: 8 the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Holies hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle 118hath yet a standing;
118Or, room is yet standing apart; Cf. Mk 15:37-38.
9: 9 which is a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,
9: 10 being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
9: 11 But Christ having come a high priest of the 119good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
119So ℵA Ivid 33 81 and most, copsa,bo,fay arm vg. (p46) B 1739 D* read good things that are come,
9: 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holies, having obtained an eternal ransoming.
9: 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh:
9: 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse 120your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
120So ℵ 33 81 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., copsa arm vg. A 1739* read our conscience [B is missing Hb 9:14 to 13:25.]
9: 15 And for this cause he is mediator of a new 121covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
121The Gk. word here used signifies both covenant and testament. (five times in vss. 15-20.)
9: 16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity 122be shown the death of him that made it.
122Gk. be brought
9: 17 For such a testament is of force 123where there hath been death: for 124it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.
123Gk. over the dead: or, over dead bodies:
124Or, doth it ever avail while he that made it liveth?
9: 18 Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood.
9: 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves 125and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
125p46 1739 1881 and a few others omit and the goats
9: 20 saying, 126This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded towards you.
126Ex 24:8.
9: 21 Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service he sprinkled in like manner with the blood.
9: 22 And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
9: 23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with mightier sacrifices that these.
9: 24 For Christ entered not into Holies made with hands, 127like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
127Lit. antitypes of the true;
9: 25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the Holies year by year with blood not his own;
9: 26 else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the 128end of the ages hath he been manifested to disannul sin 129by the sacrifice of himself.
128Lit. consummation
129Or, by his sacrifice.
9: 27 And inasmuch as it is 130appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;
130Gk. laid up for men Compare Col 1:5; 2Tm 4:8.
9: 28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from 131sin-offering, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.
131Hb. uses the same word for sin and sin-offering. This usage is apparently carried over into the Gk.
