Hebrews 9:1–9

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,↗