23^* Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified by these rites, but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.^q 24For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf.^r 25Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own; 26if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages^* to take away sin by his sacrifice.^s 27Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,^t 28so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many,^* will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.^u