Hebrews 9:3-12

³and behind the second curtain an area called the Holy of Holies,

⁴having a golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold—in it were a golden jar holding the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant;

⁵while above it were cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat (this is not the place to go into detail about them).

⁶Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests continually went into the first part, performing the divine services,

⁷but into the second one only the high priest could go, once a year and only with blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins of ignorance;

⁸the Holy Spirit was making clear that the way into the Most Holy Place was not yet open to the public while the first tabernacle was still in existence.

⁹It was a figure during the time then present, a time when both gifts and sacrifices were being offered that were incapable of clearing the conscience of the worshiper—

¹⁰they were only about foods and drinks and various ceremonial washings and physical regulations, things imposed until the time of restructuring.

¹¹But Christ entered once for all into the real Holy Places, having obtained eternal redemption—He had come as High Priest of the good things that are about to be, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

¹²and with His own blood, not that of goats and calves.