20. saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”
21. Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.
22. According to the Torah, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
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 better sacrifices than these.
24. For Messiah hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;