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2 A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room were the lampstand, the table, and the consecrated bread (the Bread of the Presence). This was called the Holy Place. 3 Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place (the Holy of Holies), 4 containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant {diathēkēs}. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s (exalted) staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. 5 Above the ark were the cherubim of glory {doxēs}, overshadowing the mercy seat (atonement cover). But we cannot discuss these things in detail now. 6 When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly into the first room to perform their sacred duties. 7 But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. 8 By this arrangement the Holy Spirit {Hagiou Pneumatos} was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place (the Holy Place) had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing. Hebrews 9:2-8, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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