If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
KJV
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
ASV
Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.