Hebrews 9

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 The former indeed had also justifications of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.	1 The first covenant also had its laws governing worship and its sanctuary, a sanctuary on this earth.
2 For there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein were the candlesticks, and the table, and the setting forth of loaves, which is called the holy.	2 There was a tent which comprised two compartments: the first, in which the lamp-stand, the table andthe loaves of permanent offering were kept, was cal ed the Holy Place;
3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the holy of holies:	3 then beyond the second veil, a second compartment which was called the Holy of Holies
4 Having a golden censer, and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna, and the rod of Aaron, that had blossomed, and the tables of the testament.	4 to which belonged the gold altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant, plated al over with gold. Inthis were kept the gold jar containing the manna, Aaron's branch that grew the buds, and the tables of thecovenant.
5 And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly.	5 On top of it were the glorious winged creatures, overshadowing the throne of mercy. This is not the timeto go into detail about this.
6 Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests indeed always entered, accomplishing the offices of sacrifices.	6 Under these provisions, priests go regularly into the outer tent to carry out their acts of worship,
7 But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own, and the people's ignorance:	7 but the second tent is entered only once a year, and then only by the high priest who takes in the bloodto make an offering for his own and the people's faults of inadvertence.
8 The Holy Ghost signifying this, that the way into the holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing.	8 By this, the Holy Spirit means us to see that as long as the old tent stands, the way into the holy placeis not opened up;
9 Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which can not, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,	9 it is a symbol for this present time. None of the gifts and sacrifices offered under these regulations canpossibly bring any worshipper to perfection in his conscience;
10 And divers washings, and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.	10 they are rules about outward life, connected with food and drink and washing at various times, whichare in force only until the time comes to set things right.
11 But Christ, being come an high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is, not of this creation:	11 But now Christ has come, as the high priest of al the blessings which were to come. He has passedthrough the greater, the more perfect tent, not made by human hands, that is, not of this created order;
12 Neither by the blood of goats, or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption.	12 and he has entered the sanctuary once and for all, taking with him not the blood of goats and bulcalves, but his own blood, having won an eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh:	13 The blood of goats and bul s and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on those who have incurreddefilement, may restore their bodily purity.
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?	14 How much more wil the blood of Christ, who offered himself, blameless as he was, to God throughthe eternal Spirit, purify our conscience from dead actions so that we can worship the living God.
15 And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death, for the redemption of those trangressions, which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.	15 This makes him the mediator of a new covenant, so that, now that a death has occurred to redeem thesins committed under an earlier covenant, those who have been cal ed to an eternal inheritance may receive thepromise.
16 For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must of necessity come in.	16 Now wherever a wil is in question, the death of the testator must be established;
17 For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.	17 a testament comes into effect only after a death, since it has no force while the testator is stil alive.
18 Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.	18 That is why even the earlier covenant was inaugurated with blood,
19 For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,	19 and why, after Moses had promulgated al the commandments of the Law to the people, he took thecalves' blood, the goats' blood and some water, and with these he sprinkled the book itself and all the people,using scarlet wool and hyssop;
20 Saying: This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.	20 saying as he did so: This is the blood of the covenant that God has made with you.
21 The tabernacle also and all the vessels of the ministry, in like manner, he sprinkled with blood.	21 And he sprinkled both the tent and all the liturgical vessels with blood in the same way.
22 And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood: and without shedding of blood there is no remission.	22 In fact, according to the Law, practical y every purification takes place by means of blood; and if thereis no shedding of blood, there is no remission.
23 It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.	23 Only the copies of heavenly things are purified in this way; the heavenly things themselves have to bepurified by a higher sort of sacrifice than this.
24 For Jesus is not entered into the holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.	24 It is not as though Christ had entered a man-made sanctuary which was merely a model of the realone; he entered heaven itself, so that he now appears in the presence of God on our behalf.
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holies, every year with the blood of others:	25 And he does not have to offer himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the sanctuary yearafter year with the blood that is not his own,
26 For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world: but now once at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of himself.	26 or else he would have had to suffer over and over again since the world began. As it is, he has madehis appearance once and for al , at the end of the last age, to do away with sin by sacrificing himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:	27 Since human beings die only once, after which comes judgement,
28 So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many; the second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.	28 so Christ too, having offered himself only once to bear the sin of many, will manifest himself a secondtime, sin being no more, to those who are waiting for him, to bring them salvation.