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above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat.[a] Of these things we cannot speak now in detail.

Such preparations having been made, the priests go continually into the first tent[b] to carry out their ritual duties; but only the high priest goes into the second, and he but once a year, and not without taking the blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:5 Or the place of atonement
  2. Hebrews 9:6 Or tabernacle

And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

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