WPNT(i)
2 Yes, a tabernacle was set up: the first part, which is called the Holy Place, in which were the lamp stand, the table and the showbread;
3 and behind the second curtain an area called the Holy of Holies,
4 having a golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold—in it were a golden jar holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant;
5 while above it were cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat (this is not the place to go into detail about them).
6 Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests continually went into the first part, performing the divine services,
7 but into the second one only the high priest could go, once a year and only with blood, which he offered for himself and for the people’s sins of ignorance;
8 the Holy Spirit was making clear that the way into the Most Holy Place was not yet open to the public while the first tabernacle was still in existence.
9 It was a figure during the time then present, a time when both gifts and sacrifices were being offered that were incapable of clearing the conscience of the worshipper—
10 they were only about foods and drinks and various ceremonial washings and physical regulations, things imposed until the time of restructuring.
11 But Christ entered once for all into the real Holy Places, having obtained eternal redemption—He had come as High Priest of the good things that are about to be, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
12 and with His own blood, not that of goats and calves.
13 For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who had been ceremonially defiled, restored ceremonial purity to the body,
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 For this reason He is mediator of a new covenant, so that those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant.