Hebrews 9 Bible study: Offered once

The chapter opens with Now indeed: "Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary. For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread, which is called the Holy Place. After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail." (9:1-5). These notes explain none of these things beyond the letter's words. Then the letter tells what was done there: "Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services, but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people. The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing. This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect, being only (with foods and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation." (9:6-10). These notes explain "a symbol of the present age" and "a time of reformation" (9:9-10) no further than their words, and say nothing of when or where any of it was done.

Exodus 24:8→leads toHebrews 9:15-20

Moses sprinkled the people and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words" (24:8). Hebrews gives his words as "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you" (Hebrews 9:20), worded a little differently from Exodus, and calls it the first covenant: "Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood" (Hebrews 9:18). Of Jesus it says, "he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant" (Hebrews 9:15).

ἅπαξhapaxsay HAP-ax

Strong's: "one (or a single) time (numerically or conclusively)". "it is appointed for men to die once" (9:27): behind once is this adverb. Hebrews has it eight times (counted in RP2018, and in all eight editions TAGNT compares). The WEB's once for all is another word, which Favor's Hebrews 7 studies.