Ba-Ebre 9
1 Boyokani ya liboso ezalaki na mibeko ya losambo, mpe na Esika ya bule oyo ezalaki ya mokili.
The former system had instructions as to how to worship, and an earthly sanctuary.
2 Batelemisaki Mongombo oyo ezalaki na biteni mibale: kati na eteni ya liboso oyo bazalaki kobenga « Esika ya bule, » ezalaki na etelemiselo ya minda, mesa mpe mapa oyo babonzi lokola makabo epai ya Nzambe.
The first room in the Tabernacle housed the candlestick, the table, and the sacred bread. This was called the Holy Place.
3 Sima na rido ya mibale, ezalaki na etando oyo bazalaki kobenga « Esika-Oyo-Eleki-Bule. »
Past the second veil in the Tabernacle was the room called the Most Holy Place.
4 Kati na yango, ezalaki na etumbelo ansa oyo basala na wolo; ezalaki mpe na Sanduku ya Boyokani, oyo babamba wolo na mobimba na yango. Kati na Sanduku ya Boyokani, ezalaki na sani ya wolo, oyo batia mana kati na yango; lingenda ya Aron oyo ebimisaki mito ya banzete, mpe bitando ya mabanga oyo batobolaki makomi ya mibeko ya boyokani.
This contained the golden altar of incense, the gold-covered “agreement chest.” Inside this were the golden pot containing manna, Aaron's rod that had produced buds, and the stone inscriptions of the agreement.
5 Na likolo ya Sanduku, ezalaki na bililingi ya basheribe ya nkembo, oyo ezipaki mofinuku ya Sanduku na nzela ya elili ya mapapu na yango. Kasi tokoki te sik’oyo kolobela biloko oyo na molayi.
Above this were the glorious angel cherubim covering the place of reconciliation. We can't discuss all of this in detail now.
6 Wana biloko oyo nyonso esilaki kotiama, Banganga-Nzambe bazalaki kokota, mbala na mbala, na eteni ya liboso ya Mongombo mpo na kosala mosala na bango.
Once all of this had been set up, the priests would go in regularly to the first room of the Tabernacle to perform their duties.
7 Kasi kati na eteni ya mibale, kaka mokonzi ya Banganga-Nzambe nde azalaki kokota kuna mbala moko na mobu; mpe asengeli komema makila ya kobonzela Nzambe, mpo na ye moko mpe mpo na masumu oyo bato basalaki na kozanga koyeba.
But only the high priest went into the second room, and only once a year. Even then he had to make a sacrifice involving blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins of ignorance.
8 Na nzela ya biloko oyo, Molimo Mosantu azalaki kotalisa polele ete, wana Mongombo ya liboso ezalaki nanu, nzela mpo na kokota kati na Esika-Oyo-Eleki-Bule ezalaki ya kokangama.
By this the Holy Spirit indicated that the way into the true Most Holy Place hadn't been revealed while the first Tabernacle still existed.
9 Mpe ezali elilingi ya makambo oyo ezali kosalema na tango oyo mpo na kotalisa ete makabo mpe bambeka oyo babonzelaka Nzambe ezali na makoki te ya kokomisa ya kokoka, mitema ya bato oyo basambelaka ndenge wana.
This is an illustration for us in the present, showing us that the gifts and sacrifices that are offered can't make the worshiper's conscience clear.
10 Ezali na yango kaka malako na tina na bilei, masanga mpe ndenge ebele ya komipetola: mibeko ya bomoto, oyo bazalaki kosalela kino na tango oyo Nzambe abongolaki makambo nyonso.
They're just religious regulations—about food and drink, and various ceremonies involving washing—which were put in place until the time of God's new way of relating to him.
11 Kasi tango Klisto ayaki lokola Mokonzi ya Banganga-Nzambe mpo na kopesa biso biloko oyo asilaki kozwa mpo na biso, akatisaki Mongombo ya monene makasi mpe ya kokoka; ezali Mongombo oyo esalema na maboko ya bato te, ezali ya mokili oyo te.
Christ has come as a high priest of all the good experiences we now have. He went into the greater, more complete Tabernacle that wasn't made by human hands—not part of this created world.
12 Akotaki mbala moko mpo na libela kati na Esika-Oyo-Eleki-Bule, mpe abonzaki kuna makila ya bantaba te mpe ya bana ngombe te, kasi abonzaki nde makila na Ye moko. Ezali ndenge wana nde azwelaki biso lisiko ya libela. (aiōnios g166)
He didn't enter through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood. He entered once, for all time, into the Most Holy Place, setting us free forever. (aiōnios g166)
13 Pamba te makila ya bantaba, makila ya bangombe ya mibali mpe putulu ya bangombe ya basi, oyo basopelaka bato ya mbindo, epetolaka kaka libanda ya nzoto;
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a cow sprinkled on those who are ritually unclean make the body ceremonially clean,
14 nzokande makila ya Klisto oyo, na nzela ya Molimo ya seko, amikabaki Ye moko epai ya Nzambe lokola mbeka oyo ezangi mbeba, epetolaka mitema na biso na misala oyo ememaka na kufa mpo ete tokoka kosalela Nzambe na bomoi. (aiōnios g166)
how much more does the blood of Christ—who offered himself in his sinless life to God through the eternal Spirit—clean your consciences from your past sinful lives so you can serve the living God? (aiōnios g166)
15 Yango wana, Klisto azali Moyokanisi kati na Boyokani ya sika, mpo ete bato oyo Nzambe abenga bakoka kozwa libula ya seko oyo Nzambe alakaki bango. Mpe bakoki solo kozwa yango, pamba te Klisto asilaki kokufa lokola mbeka mpo na kosikola bango na masumu oyo basalaki tango bazalaki na se ya bokonzi ya boyokani ya kala. (aiōnios g166)
This is why he is the mediator of a new agreed relationship. Since a death has occurred to set them free from the sins committed under the first agreed relationship, now those who are called can receive the promise of an eternal inheritance. (aiōnios g166)
16 Pamba te soki moto akomi mokanda mpo ete moto songolo akitana na biloko na ye na mokolo oyo akokufa, asengeli liboso kokufa mpo ete biloko oyo akotika ekoma ya mokitani oyo ye asilaki kopona.
For a will to be implemented, the person who made it must be dead.
17 Mokanda yango ezwaka nguya kaka soki mokomi na yango akufi; kasi soki mokomi azali nanu na bomoi, ezali na nguya ata moke te.
A will is only valid when there's been a death—and is never applied while the person who made it is still alive.
18 Yango wana mpe, boyokani ya liboso ekokaki kozala na nguya te soki makila esopanaki te.
That's why the first agreement was established with blood.
19 Pamba te, tango Moyize asilisaki kotangela bato mitindo nyonso ndenge ekomami kati na Mibeko, akamataki makila ya bana ngombe, ya bantaba elongo na mayi, asopelaki buku mpe bato nyonso na nzela ya etape ya nzete ya izope, oyo balinga elamba ya lino ya motane.
After Moses had given all the commandments of the law to everyone, he took the blood of calves and goats, and together with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, sprinkled the book itself and all the people.
20 Alobaki: « Oyo ezali makila ya boyokani oyo Nzambe atindi bino kobatela. »
He said to them, “This is the blood of the agreed relationship that God has told you he wants with you.”
21 Bongo, na makila yango, asopelaki lisusu Mongombo mpe bisalelo nyonso ya losambo.
Moses sprinkled the blood in the same way on the Tabernacle and everything used in worship.
22 Pamba te, kolanda Mibeko, nyonso epetolamaka na makila; mpe soki makila etangi te, bolimbisi masumu ezali te.
According to ceremonial law, almost everything is made clean with blood, and without shedding blood nothing is made ritually free from the stain of sin.
23 Boye, lokola bililingi ya biloko oyo ezali kati na Likolo esengelaki kopetolama ndenge wana, ezalaki na tina ete yango moko mpe biloko ya Likolo epetolama na nzela ya bambeka oyo eleki malamu.
So if the copies of what is in heaven needed to be cleansed in this way, the things in heaven needed cleansing by better sacrifices.
24 Pamba te Klisto akotaki te na Esika ya Bule oyo esalemaki na maboko ya bato, oyo ezalaki kaka elilingi ya Esika ya Bule ya solo; kasi akotaki nde kati na Likolo yango moko mpo ete atelema sik’oyo liboso ya Nzambe mpo na bolamu na biso.
For Christ hasn't entered a Most Holy Place constructed by human beings that is only a pattern of the original. He has entered heaven itself, and now appears on our behalf, speaking for us in God's presence.
25 Klisto akotaki kuna te mpo ete amikabaka mbala na mbala lokola mbeka, ndenge mokonzi ya Banganga-Nzambe azalaki kokota mobu na mobu kati na Esika ya Bule elongo na makila oyo ezalaki ya ye te.
This was not to repeatedly offer himself, like a high priest has to enter the Most Holy Place year after year, offering blood that is not his own.
26 Soki ezalaki bongo, mbele Klisto anyokwamaki mbala ebele wuta na ebandeli ya mokili. Nzokande sik’oyo, na mikolo oyo ya suka, amonani mbala kaka moko mpo na kolongola masumu na nzela ya mbeka na Ye. (aiōn g165)
Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. No: just this one time at the end of the present age he came to remove sin by sacrificing himself. (aiōn g165)
27 Bongo ndenge kaka ekatama ete moto nyonso asengeli kokufa mbala moko, mpe, sima na yango, kosambisama eya,
Just as human beings die only once, and then are judged,
28 ndenge wana mpe Klisto, oyo amikabaki lokola mbeka mbala moko mpo na kolongola masumu ya bato ebele, akoya na mbala ya mibale, mpo na kolongola masumu ya bato te, kasi mpo na kobikisa bato oyo bazali kozela Ye na posa makasi.
so too for Christ—having been sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people, he will come again, not to deal with sin, but to save those who wait for him.
