Exodus 26:33-34
33And you shall hang athe veil from the clasps, and bring bthe ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy. 34 cYou shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.1 Kings 6:19-20
19The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 20The inner sanctuary ▼▼Vulgate; Hebrew and before the inner sanctuary
was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid ▼▼Septuagint made
an altar of cedar. 2 Chronicles 3:8
8 fAnd he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of fine gold. 2 Chronicles 5:7
7Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.Hebrews 9:2-8
2For ha tent ▼▼Or tabernacle; also verses 11, 21
was prepared, the first section, in which were jthe lampstand and kthe table and lthe bread of the Presence. ▼▼Greek the presentation of the loaves
It is called the Holy Place. 3Behind nthe second curtain was a second section ▼▼Greek tent; also verses 6, 8
called the Most Holy Place, 4having the golden paltar of incense and qthe ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was ra golden urn holding the manna, and sAaron’s staff that budded, and tthe tablets of the covenant. 5Above it were uthe cherubim of glory overshadowing vthe mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. 6These preparations having thus been made, wthe priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties, 7but into the second only xthe high priest goes, and he but yonce a year, and not without taking blood, zwhich he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people. 8By this the Holy Spirit indicates that aathe way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
Hebrews 9:23-24
23Thus it was necessary for abthe copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ has entered, not into holy places acmade with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God adon our behalf.
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