Ezekiel 43:22

43:22 “On the second day, you will offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering. They will purify the altar just as they purified it with the bull.

Ezekiel 43:26

43:26 For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it. ¹ 

Leviticus 16:16

16:16 So ²  he is to make atonement for the holy place from the impurities of the Israelites and from their transgressions with regard to all their sins, ³  and thus he is to do for the Meeting Tent which resides with them in the midst of their impurities.

Leviticus 16:33

16:33 and he is to purify ⁴  the Most Holy Place, ⁵  he is to purify the Meeting Tent and the altar, ⁶  and he is to make atonement for ⁷  the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

Hebrews 9:22-25

9:22 Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. 9:23 So it was necessary for the sketches ⁸  of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, ⁹  but the heavenly things themselves required ¹⁰  better sacrifices than these. 9:24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation ¹¹  of the true sanctuary ¹²  – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us. 9:25 And he did not enter to offer ¹³  himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

Hebrews 10:3-4

10:3 But in those sacrifices ¹⁴  there is a reminder of sins year after year. 10:4 For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins. ¹⁵ 

Hebrews 10:19-22

Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith

10:19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, ¹⁶  since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 10:20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us ¹⁷  through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, ¹⁸  10:21 and since we have a great priest ¹⁹  over the house of God, 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, ²⁰  because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience ²¹  and our bodies washed in pure water.

[43:26]  ¹ tn Heb “fill its hands.”

[16:16]  ² tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.

[16:16]  ³ tn Heb “to all their sins.”

[16:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “to atone” (also later in this verse); see the note on “purifying the holy place” in 16:20.

[16:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “the sanctuary of the holy place.” Although this is the only place this expression occurs in the OT, it clearly refers to the innermost shrine behind the veil-canopy, where the ark of the covenant was located.

[16:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the tent of meeting and the alter he shall atone.” The repetition of the verb כִּפֶּר (kipper, “to atone”) at the beginning and end of the sequence appears to be strange, but the MT accents suggest that only “the Most Holy Place” goes with the verb at the beginning of the verse. Of course, the purging of “the Most Holy Place” has been the main emphasis of this chapter from the start (see vv. 2-3 and 11-17).

[16:33]  ⁷ tn At this point in the verse the verb כִּפֶּר (kipper, “to make atonement”) takes its object with the preposition עַל (’al, “for”; literally, “upon”; contrast the first part of the verse and cf. the notes on Lev 1:4 and 16:20 above).

[9:23]  ⁸ tn Or “prototypes,” “outlines,” referring to the earthly sanctuary. See Heb 8:5 above for the prior use of this term.

[9:23]  ⁹ tn Grk “with these”; in the translation the referent (sacrifices) has been specified for clarity.

[9:23]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”

[9:24]  ¹¹ tn Or “prefiguration.”

[9:24]  ¹² tn The word “sanctuary” is not in the Greek text at this point, but has been supplied for clarity.

[9:25]  ¹³ tn Grk “and not that he might offer,” continuing the previous construction.

[10:3]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “in them”; the referent (those sacrifices) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:4]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.”

[10:19]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

[10:20]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “that he inaugurated for us as a fresh and living way,” referring to the entrance mentioned in v. 19.

[10:20]  ¹⁸ sn Through his flesh. In a bold shift the writer changes from a spatial phrase (Christ opened the way through the curtain into the inner sanctuary) to an instrumental phrase (he did this through [by means of] his flesh in his sacrifice of himself), associating the two in an allusion to the splitting of the curtain in the temple from top to bottom (Matt 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45). Just as the curtain was split, so Christ’s body was broken for us, to give us access into God’s presence.

[10:21]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “and a great priest,” continuing the construction begun in v. 19.

[10:22]  ²⁰ tn Grk “in assurance of faith.”

[10:22]  ²¹ sn The phrase our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience combines the OT imagery of the sprinkling with blood to give ritual purity with the emphasis on the interior cleansing provided by the new covenant: It is the heart that is cleansed and the conscience made perfect (cf. Heb 8:10; 9:9, 14; 10:2, 16).