Hebrews 9:6
Good News Translation
This is how those things have been arranged. The priests go into the outer tent every day to perform their duties,

New Revised Standard Version
Such preparations having been made, the priests go continually into the first tent to carry out their ritual duties;

Contemporary English Version
But this is how everything was when the priests went each day into the first part of the tent to do their duties.

New American Bible
With these arrangements for worship, the priests, in performing their service, go into the outer tabernacle repeatedly,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle, the priests indeed always entered, accomplishing the offices of sacrifices.

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Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle, the priests indeed always entered, accomplishing the offices of sacrifices.

the priests.

Exodus 27:21 In the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that hangs before the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall order it, that it may give light before the Lord until the morning. It shall be a perpetual observance throughout their successions among the children of Israel.

Exodus 30:7,8 And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it: . . .

Numbers 28:3 These are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a year old without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust:

2 Chronicles 26:16-19 But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the temple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of incense. . . .

Daniel 8:11 And it was magnified even to the prince of the strength: and it took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of his sanctuary.

Luke 1:8-11 And it came to pass, when he executed the priestly function in the order of his course before God, . . .

Context
The Earthly Tabernacle
5And over it were the cherubims of glory overshadowing the propitiatory: of which it is not needful to speak now particularly. 6Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle, the priests indeed always entered, accomplishing the offices of sacrifices. 7But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people's ignorance:…
Cross References
Numbers 18:2
And take with thee thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, and the sceptre of thy father, and let them be ready in hand, and minister to thee: but thou and thy sons shall minister in the tabernacle of the testimony.

Numbers 28:3
These are the sacrifices which you shall offer: Two lambs of a year old without blemish every day for the perpetual holocaust:

Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites: to whom belongeth the adoption as of children and the glory and the testament and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises:

Hebrews 7:11
If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech: and not be called according to the order of Aaron?

Hebrews 9:5
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