**Hebrews 9:23,** speaking of Moses purifying the earthly tabernacle and Jesus the heavenly home with blood, says, 

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> It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens
>  should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with
>  better sacrifices than these.
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I thought the blood cleansed of sin. If so, then why was it applied to heavenly things? Or was the blood applied for a different reason to these two places?