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Hebrews 9:5

Verse 5 of 28. The 9th of 13 chapters in Hebrews, in The General Letters.

1Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

2For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread, which is called the Holy Place.

3After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

4having 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;

5and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

7but 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.

8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

9This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.