MODERN LITERAL VERSION

9:1 Then indeed even the first tabernacle had ordinances of divine service to God and its holy-place, a worldly one.
9:2 For* the first tabernacle was prepared which is called holy, in which were the lamp-stand and the table and the showbread.
9:3 But, the tabernacle which is called the holy of holies was after the second curtain;
9:4 holding a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant* covered all around in every side with gold, in which was the golden jar holding the manna and Aaron's rod which had sprouted and the tablets of the covenant*;
9:5 and up above it the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which things it is now not the time to speak of them individually.

9:6 Now these things having thus always been prepared, the priests indeed go into the first tabernacle, finishing the divine services to God;
9:7 but into the second the high-priest went alone, once for all in the year, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and on behalf of the sins of ignorance of the people.
9:8 The Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the holy-places has still not been made manifest, while the first tabernacle still has a standing.
9:9 This tabernacle, (which is a figure toward the present time); according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, according to the conscience, perfect he who is giving-divine service to God,
9:10 being only fleshly ordinances, (with foods, drinks and assorted ceremonial washings*), laid upon us till a time of reformation.

9:11 But Christ having come as a high-priest of the future good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made* with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
9:12 nor yet through the blood of he-goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy-place, having found everlasting redemption.
9:13 For* if the blood of he-goats and oxen and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those who have been desecrated, sanctify for the cleanness of the flesh;
9:14 how much more the blood of Christ, (who through the everlasting Spirit offered himself unblemished to God), will cleanse your* conscience from dead works, *that* you may give-divine service to the living God.

9:15 And because of this, he is the intermediary of a {F} new covenant*, *that his death having happened *for the redemption of the transgressions that were against the first {F} covenant*, those who have been called may receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance.
9:16 For* where there is a {F} covenant*, it is a necessity for the death of him who covenanted it to be brought about.
9:17 For* a {F} covenant* is steadfast upon death; since it is never* in power while he who covenanted it is living.
9:18 Hence even the first covenant * has not been dedicated without blood.
9:19 For* when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the he-goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
9:20 saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant* which God commanded toward you*.' {Ex. 24:8}
9:21 Now likewise he sprinkled the tabernacle with the blood and all the vessels of the ministry*.
9:22 And according to the law, I may say, almost all things are cleansed with blood and no forgiveness happens without the shedding of blood.

9:23 Therefore indeed it was a necessity that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
9:24 For* Christ did not enter into a holy-place made* with hands, counterparts to the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God on our behalf.
9:25 Nor did he enter that* he should offer himself often, as the high-priest enters into the holy-place yearly with another's blood;
9:26 since it was often essential for him to suffer from the conception of the world, but now once for all upon the end of the ages, he has been manifested *for the nullifying of sin through the sacrifice of himself.
9:27 And inasmuch as it is laid up for men to die once but after this is the judgment;
9:28 so Christ, (having been offered once for all, *that* he should carry the sins of many), will also appear a second time, separate from sin, to those who wait for him, *for salvation.
{Footnotes: Heb 9:15-17 SEE 7:22 footnote or Appendix.}