for he was a vital part of his forefather though yet unborn, when Melchizedek met him.

for the law had never made anything perfect -- and so a better hope is brought to us, through which we have approach to God.

For the first or outer part of the tent, which is called the holy place, was equipped with the lamp and table and the presentation bread.

With these arrangements completed in this way, the priests in conducting their official services regularly go into the outer part of the tent of worship;

but into the second or inner part nobody but the high priest may go, and he only once a year, and never without blood which he offers for himself and for the sins committed in ignorance by the people.

You must not forget your former leaders, for it was they who brought you the message of God. Consider how they closed their lives; imitate their faith.

And more especially do I beg you to do so, that I may very soon be brought back to you.

May God, who gives us peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, who through the blood by which He ratified the everlasting covenant, is now the Great Shepherd of the sheep,