'Sacrifices' in the Bible

For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.

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

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

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.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

When he says above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them" (which are offered according to the law),

And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again -- sacrifices that can never take away sins.

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.