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

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Exodus 25:8, Exodus 25:8, Hebrews 9:10, Hebrews 9:11, Hebrews 9:10

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

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Exodus 40:4, Exodus 40:4, Leviticus 24:5, Leviticus 24:8, Leviticus 24:5

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

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Exodus 26:31, Exodus 26:33, Exodus 26:31, Exodus 26:33, Matthew 27:51

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;

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Numbers 17:10, Numbers 17:10, 2 Chronicles 5:10, Exodus 26:33, Exodus 40:3

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

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Leviticus 16:2, Numbers 7:89, Leviticus 16:2, Numbers 7:89, Exodus 25:17

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

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Numbers 28:3, Numbers 28:3, Exodus 27:21, Luke 1:8, Luke 1:11

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.

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Leviticus 16:34, Leviticus 16:34, Leviticus 5:18, Leviticus 5:18, Exodus 30:10

8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place was not yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

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John 14:6, John 14:6, Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 10:19

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

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1 Peter 3:21, 1 Peter 3:21, Hebrews 5:1, Hebrews 5:1, Romans 5:14

10being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

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Ephesians 2:15, Colossians 2:16, Ephesians 2:15, Colossians 2:16, Hebrews 7:16

11But Christ having come as a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

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Hebrews 9:23, Hebrews 9:24, Hebrews 9:23, Hebrews 9:24, 2 Corinthians 5:1

12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

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Hebrews 10:4, Hebrews 10:4, 1 Peter 1:18, 1 Peter 1:19, 1 Peter 1:18

13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

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Numbers 19:2, Numbers 19:21, Numbers 19:2, Numbers 19:21, Acts 15:9

14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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Hebrews 10:22, Hebrews 10:22, 1 Peter 1:19, 1 Peter 1:19, 1 John 1:7

15For this reason he is the mediator of a New Covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

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Romans 3:24, Romans 3:26, Romans 3:24, Romans 3:26, Romans 8:30

16For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.

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1 Corinthians 15:22, James 2:10, 1 Corinthians 15:22, James 2:10, Romans 6:23

17For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

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Genesis 48:21, Genesis 48:21, Galatians 3:15, John 14:27, Galatians 3:15

18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

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Exodus 24:3, Exodus 24:8, Exodus 24:3, Exodus 24:8, Hebrews 9:14

19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

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Exodus 24:5, Exodus 24:11, Exodus 24:5, Exodus 24:11, Hebrews 9:12

20saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."

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Matthew 26:28, Exodus 24:8, Matthew 26:28, Exodus 24:8, Hebrews 13:20

21Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood.

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Leviticus 8:19, Leviticus 8:15, Leviticus 8:19, Leviticus 8:15, Exodus 29:12

22According to the Law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

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Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 6:7, Leviticus 6:7, Leviticus 4:35

23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

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1 Peter 1:19, 1 Peter 1:21, 1 Peter 1:19, 1 Peter 1:21, Hebrews 10:4

24For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

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Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 9:11, Hebrews 9:12, Hebrews 9:11

25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

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Hebrews 9:12, Hebrews 9:12, Hebrews 9:7, Hebrews 9:7, Hebrews 9:14

26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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Hebrews 9:12, 1 Peter 1:20, Hebrews 9:12, 1 Peter 1:20, Matthew 25:34

27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

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2 Corinthians 5:10, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Ecclesiastes 12:7, 2 Samuel 14:14

28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

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Titus 2:13, Titus 2:13, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 2:24, Romans 6:10