Bible Cross References
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
Exodus 26:31-34
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"Make a curtain of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool. Embroider it with figures of winged creatures.
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Hang it on four posts of acacia wood covered with gold, fitted with hooks, and set in four silver bases.
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Place the curtain under the row of hooks in the roof of the Tent, and put behind the curtain the Covenant Box containing the two stone tablets. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
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Put the lid on the Covenant Box.
Exodus 40:20
Then he took the two stone tablets and put them in the Covenant Box. He put the poles in the rings of the Box and put the lid on it.
Exodus 40:21
Then he put the Box in the Tent and hung up the curtain. In this way he screened off the Covenant Box, just as the LORD had commanded.
Leviticus 16:2-19
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He said, "Tell your brother Aaron that only at the proper time is he to go behind the curtain into the Most Holy Place, because that is where I appear in a cloud above the lid on the Covenant Box. If he disobeys, he will be killed.
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He may enter the Most Holy Place only after he has brought a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering."
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Then the LORD gave the following instructions. Before Aaron goes into the Most Holy Place, he must take a bath and put on the priestly garments: the linen robe and shorts, the belt, and the turban.
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The community of Israel shall give Aaron two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
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He shall offer a bull as a sacrifice to take away his own sins and those of his family.
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Then he shall take the two goats to the entrance of the Tent of the LORD's presence.
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There he shall draw lots, using two stones, one marked "for the LORD" and the other "for Azazel."
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Aaron shall sacrifice the goat chosen by lot for the LORD and offer it as a sin offering.
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The goat chosen for Azazel shall be presented alive to the LORD and sent off into the desert to Azazel, in order to take away the sins of the people.
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When Aaron sacrifices the bull as the sin offering for himself and his family,
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he shall take a fire pan full of burning coals from the altar and two handfuls of fine incense and bring them into the Most Holy Place.
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There in the LORD's presence he shall put the incense on the fire, and the smoke of the incense will hide the lid of the Covenant Box so that he will not see it and die.
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He shall take some of the bull's blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the lid and then sprinkle some of it seven times in front of the Covenant Box.
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After that, he shall kill the goat for the sin offering for the people, bring its blood into the Most Holy Place, and sprinkle it on the lid and then in front of the Covenant Box, as he did with the bull's blood.
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In this way he will perform the ritual to purify the Most Holy Place from the uncleanness of the people of Israel and from all their sins. He must do this to the Tent, because it stands in the middle of the camp, which is ritually unclean.
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From the time Aaron enters the Most Holy Place to perform the ritual of purification until he comes out, there must be no one in the Tent. When he has performed the ritual for himself, his family, and the whole community,
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he must then go out to the altar for burnt offerings and purify it. He must take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it all over the projections at the corners of the altar.
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With his finger he must sprinkle some of the blood on the altar seven times. In this way he is to purify it from the sins of the people of Israel and make it holy.
2 Chronicles 3:8-14
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The inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was 30 feet long and 30 feet wide, which was the full width of the Temple. Twenty-five tons of gold were used to cover the walls of the Most Holy Place;
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twenty ounces of gold were used for making nails, and the walls of the upper rooms were also covered with gold.
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The king also had his workers make two winged creatures out of metal, cover them with gold, and place them in the Most Holy Place,
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where they stood side by side facing the entrance. Each had two wings, each wing 7 1/2 feet long, which were spread out so that they touched each other in the center of the room and reached to the wall on either side of the room, stretching across the full width of 30 feet.
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A curtain for the Most Holy Place was made of linen and of other material, which was dyed blue, purple, and red, with designs of the winged creatures worked into it.
Matthew 27:51-53
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Then the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split apart,
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the graves broke open, and many of God's people who had died were raised to life.
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They left the graves, and after Jesus rose from death, they went into the Holy City, where many people saw them.
Luke 23:45
Hebrews 4:14-16
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Let us, then, hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we have a great High Priest who has gone into the very presence of God---Jesus, the Son of God.
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Our High Priest is not one who cannot feel sympathy for our weaknesses. On the contrary, we have a High Priest who was tempted in every way that we are, but did not sin.
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Let us have confidence, then, and approach God's throne, where there is grace. There we will receive mercy and find grace to help us just when we need it.
Hebrews 6:19
We have this hope as an anchor for our lives. It is safe and sure, and goes through the curtain of the heavenly temple into the inner sanctuary.
Hebrews 9:3-12
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Behind the second curtain was the tent called the Most Holy Place.
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In it were the gold altar for the burning of incense and the Covenant Box all covered with gold and containing the gold jar with the manna in it, Aaron's stick that had sprouted leaves, and the two stone tablets with the commandments written on them.
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Above the Box were the winged creatures representing God's presence, with their wings spread over the place where sins were forgiven. But now is not the time to explain everything in detail.
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This is how those things have been arranged. The priests go into the outer tent every day to perform their duties,
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but only the high priest goes into the inner tent, and he does so only once a year. He takes with him blood which he offers to God on behalf of himself and for the sins which the people have committed without knowing they were sinning.
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The Holy Spirit clearly teaches from all these arrangements that the way into the Most Holy Place has not yet been opened as long as the outer tent still stands.
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This is a symbol which points to the present time. It means that the offerings and animal sacrifices presented to God cannot make the worshiper's heart perfect,
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since they have to do only with food, drink, and various purification ceremonies. These are all outward rules, which apply only until the time when God will establish the new order.
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But Christ has already come as the High Priest of the good things that are already here. The tent in which he serves is greater and more perfect; it is not a tent made by human hands, that is, it is not a part of this created world.
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When Christ went through the tent and entered once and for all into the Most Holy Place, he did not take the blood of goats and bulls to offer as a sacrifice; rather, he took his own blood and obtained eternal salvation for us.
Hebrews 10:19-23
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We have, then, my friends, complete freedom to go into the Most Holy Place by means of the death of Jesus.
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He opened for us a new way, a living way, through the curtain---that is, through his own body.
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We have a great priest in charge of the house of God.
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So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.
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Let us hold on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can trust God to keep his promise.