Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!”

And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.

By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.

saying, “I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation of the true sanctuary – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood – for on that basis the people received the law – what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?