Hebrews 9

JMNT^{(i) 1} The first, indeed then, also continued having rites and products of the way then pointed out (ordinances and regulations of righteousness) in respect to worship and sacred service, and the set-apart (holy) place pertaining to that system (suited to that ordered arrangement), ² for a tabernacle was furnished (equipped, prepared), the first [part; compartment] in which [was] both the lampstand and the table, even the setting forth of the breads, and the golden censer-altar [reading with B: Vat. MS #1209, & Sahidic witnesses], which is being called set-apart (a holy place; [the] Holy Place; a separated place). ³ But after the second veil, a tabernacle being called the set-apart of the set-apart ones (the Holy of Holies; the separated one of the separated ones; = the most set-apart), ⁴ having the ark (chest) of the arrangement (covenant), having been covered round about by gold, in which [was] a golden pot (urn) having the manna, and Aaron's rod -- the one sprouting (budding) -- and the tablets of the arrangement (disposition; covenant), ⁵ but up above her [i.e., the ark] cherubim of glory continuously overshadowing the mercy seat (the place of gentleness and graciousness -- fr.), concerning which things [or: ones; note: referring to the cherubim?] there is now nothing in part (in detail? lit.: down from, or in accord with, a part) to be saying. ⁶ But of these things, having been thus prepared (equipped; furnished; constructed), the priests, indeed, habitually entering into the first tabernacle [i.e., compartment], are completing (ending upon; fully finishing) the sacred service, ⁷ yet into the second one [compartment], the chief priest alone (or: only), once a year, not apart from blood -- which he is offering over (on behalf of) the ignorances (un-knowings) of himself and of the people -- ⁸ the Holy Spirit making this clearly visible: the Way of the set-apart places (or: of the separated ones; of the Holies) [was] not yet to have been manifested (caused to appear; brought to light) while the first tabernacle is having a standing, ⁹ which is a parable, [reaching] into (for) the present season (the fitting situation {} having been placed in and is now here), in accord with which both gifts and sacrifices are continually being offered, not being able (not having power) to perfect (complete; bring to the goal; finish; mature), in regard to conscience, those repeatedly doing the sacred service, ¹⁰ [relying] only upon foods and drinks and various baptisms, also rites and products of the way then pointed out (applications of fairness and equity) pertaining to the flesh (or: [the] flesh's ordinances and regulations of justice), continuously lying upon them [thus: pressing upon them; being imposed by them] until a fitting situation (season --) of raising-up-through (or: thoroughly raising upright and making straight). ¹¹ Yet Christ, being born alongside, a Chief Priest of the good things occurring (coming into existence; other MSS: being about to be) [or: a Chief Priest of virtuous men {reading as masc.} coming to birth], through the greater and more perfect (more matured and complete) Tabernacle: not made by hands, that is, not of this creation, ¹² neither through blood of he-goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered in once for all (upon once; at once) into the set-apart ones (the holy places) finding unbinding (loosening; liberation; releasing; redemption) proper to, belonging to and pertaining to the ages (eonian, or, age-during liberation). ¹³ For id the blood of bulls and of he-goats, and ashes of a heifer, sprinkling of the ones having become defiled (made common or unclean) is repeatedly making one set-apart (making holy) towards cleanness of the flesh, ¹⁴ to how much greater an extent shall the blood of the Christ, who through a spirit pertaining to the ages offers (or: offered) Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from works of death (or: dead works) into [the situation] to be continuously rendering sacred service for (in; by; to) the living and true God? ¹⁵ And because of this, He continues a Medium (an Agency; an Intervening Substance; a middle state; One in a middle position; a go-between; an Umpire; a Mediator) of a New Arrangement (covenant; disposition), so that, pertaining to a death occurring (of a death being birthed), into an unbinding-away (a redemption by paying a price) of the transgressions (the steppings-to-the-side; the deviations) upon the first (former) arrangement (covenant; disposition), those having been called and remaining invited may take hold of (may seize into possession, or receive) the Promise of the inheritance pertaining to and having the qualities of the ages (an eon-during possession of the allotment). ¹⁶ For where [there is] an arrangement (a will; a settlement; a covenant), a necessity to be brought [is] the death of the one arranging (making the will; covenanting), ¹⁷ for an arrangement (a will; a covenant) based upon dead ones [is] firm, since it is never (not once) strong at the time that the one making the arrangement ( will; covenant) is living. ¹⁸ Whence not even the first (former) has been initiated (dedicated) apart from blood. ¹⁹ For every commandment down from the Law was spoken by (under) Moses to (for) all the people, taking the blood of calves and he-goats, with water, scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the scroll and all the people, ²⁰ saying, "This is the blood of the arrangement (covenant; disposition) which God commanded toward you," ²¹ and the Tabernacle, and even all the vessels of the public service, he sprinkled in like manner with blood. ²² And down from the Law, nearly everything is being cleansed in blood, and apart from blood-shedding a sending-away (forgiveness) is not coming into existence (is not being birthed; does not occur). ²³ Indeed, then, [it was] a necessity for the under-exhibits (examples; copies; suggestive signs) of the things within the heavens to be cleansed by these, yet the super-heavenly things (or: the things upon the heavens) themselves by better sacrifices besides these. ²⁴ For Christ did not enter into set-apart places made by hand -- representations (things formed after a pattern) of true things -- but rather into the heaven itself, now to be manifested (exhibited to view) by (in) the presence (face) of God over us. ²⁵ Nor that many times He may be continually offering Himself, even as the chief priest is repeatedly entering into the set-apart places of the set-apart places (= the Holiest place) yearly in blood belonging to another, ²⁶ since it was continually binding Him to suffer (to have sense-experiences; to feel) many times from the conception of the cosmos (or: from the casting-down, or founding, of the organized system {the world; the harmonious arrangement}). Yet now (at this time), once, upon a conjunction (a bringing of [two] ends together ["denoting the joining of two age-times" -- Bullinger]) of the ages, He has been and remains manifested (has been brought to light and continues visible) into a displacement of failure (of error; of sin; of failure to hit the target) through the sacrifice of Himself (or: through His sacrifice). ²⁷ And according to as much as it is lying-away (laid away from; reserved) for (in; to) mankind (men) to die-away once, but after this a decision (a separation resulting in a distinction; a judgment), ²⁸ SO ALSO, the Christ, being once borne (carried) close, into THE MANY (or: being offered once unto {or: for} the many) to carry failures (errors; mistakes; sing; misses of the target) back up again, will be made visible (will be seen) forth from out of the midst of the second [place -- cf 9:3 & 10:9] -- apart from failure (apart from sin; apart from a sin offering; apart from error in attempting to hit the target) -- IN THOSE (by those; to those; for those) habitually receiving (taking) from out of the midst of Him, into a deliverance (into a rescue; into health and wholeness; into salvation) [A & others +: through faith].