希伯來書 9
1 原來前約有禮拜的條例和屬世界的聖幕。
Now even the first covenant had its ordinances of public worship, and its sanctuary, a material one.
2 因為有預備的帳幕，頭一層叫作聖所，裏面有燈臺、桌子，和陳設餅。
For a tent was built, the outer one called the Holy Place, in which were the lamp and the table and the loaves of the Presence;
3 第二幔子後又有一層帳幕，叫作至聖所，
and behind the second veil was the tent called the Holy of Holies.
4 有金香爐，有包金的約櫃，櫃裏有盛嗎哪的金罐和亞倫發過芽的杖，並兩塊約版；
In it was the golden altar of incense, and also the Ark of the Covenant covered all over with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 櫃上面有榮耀基路伯的影罩着施恩座。這幾件我現在不能一一細說。
while above it, overshadowing the mercy-seat, were the cherubim of glory. But I must not speak about these in detail.
6 這些物件既如此預備齊了，眾祭司就常進頭一層帳幕，行拜上帝的禮。
Such then were the arrangements. Into the outer tent the priests enter continually in the performance of their duties;
7 至於第二層帳幕，惟有大祭司一年一次獨自進去，沒有不帶着血為自己和百姓的過錯獻上。
but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people.
8 聖靈用此指明，頭一層帳幕仍存的時候，進入至聖所的路還未顯明。
The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing.
9 那頭一層帳幕作現今的一個表樣，所獻的禮物和祭物，就着良心說，都不能叫禮拜的人得以完全。
This is a parable, for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able, as far as conscience is concerned, to perfect the worshiper;
10 這些事，連那飲食和諸般洗濯的規矩，都不過是屬肉體的條例，命定到振興的時候為止。
since they consist only in meats and drinks and various ablutions, carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.
11 但現在基督已經來到，作了將來美事的大祭司，經過那更大更全備的帳幕，不是人手所造，也不是屬乎這世界的；
But when Christ came, a High Priest of good things to come, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is to say, not of this material creation,
not taking the blood of goats and oxen, but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy Place, obtaining for us an eternal redemption. (aiōnios g166)
13 若山羊和公牛的血，並母牛犢的灰，灑在不潔的人身上，尚且叫人成聖，身體潔淨，
For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleansing of the flesh,
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God! (aiōnios g166)
And because of this he is the Mediator of a new testament, in order that, since a death has taken place to atone for offenses committed under the first testament, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. (aiōnios g166)
16 凡有遺命必須等到留遺命的人死了；
For where there is a testament, there must also be brought forward in evidence the death of the testator.
17 因為人死了，遺命才有效力，若留遺命的尚在，那遺命還有用處嗎？
For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.
18 所以，前約也不是不用血立的；
Accordingly we find that not without blood was the first testament enacted.
19 因為摩西當日照着律法將各樣誡命傳給眾百姓，就拿朱紅色絨和牛膝草，把牛犢山羊的血和水灑在書上，又灑在眾百姓身上，說：
For after every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses to the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.
20 「這血就是上帝與你們立約的憑據。」
saying, This is the blood of that testament which God commanded in regard to you.
21 他又照樣把血灑在帳幕和各樣器皿上。
Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of service he sprinkled likewise, and indeed, according to the Law,
22 按着律法，凡物差不多都是用血潔淨的；若不流血，罪就不得赦免了。
almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.
23 照着天上樣式做的物件必須用這些祭物去潔淨；但那天上的本物自然當用更美的祭物去潔淨。
While, then, it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be cleansed by such sacrifices, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices than these.
24 因為基督並不是進了人手所造的聖所（這不過是真聖所的影像），乃是進了天堂，如今為我們顯在上帝面前；
For it was not into a Sanctuary made by hands, a mere type of the reality, that Christ entered, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God on our behalf.
25 也不是多次將自己獻上，像那大祭司每年帶着牛羊的血進入聖所，
Nor did he enter to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest entered into the sanctuary, year after year, with blood that was not his own;
(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world; )but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself. (aiōn g165)
27 按着定命，人人都有一死，死後且有審判。
And since it is appointed to men once to die, and after that the judgment;
28 像這樣，基督既然一次被獻，擔當了多人的罪，將來要向那等候他的人第二次顯現，並與罪無關，乃是為拯救他們。
so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.
