Hebrews 8:5

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Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

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  • Exod 25:40 : 40 And see that you make them from the design which you saw on the mountain.
  • Col 2:17 : 17 For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • Heb 10:1 : 1 For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?
  • Heb 9:9 : 9 And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,
  • Heb 9:23-24 : 23 For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these. 24 For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.
  • Exod 26:30 : 30 And you are to make the House from the design which you saw on the mountain.
  • Exod 27:8 : 8 The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
  • Num 8:4 : 4 The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from its base to its flowers it was of hammered work; from the design which the Lord had given to Moses, he made the support for the lights.
  • 1 Chr 28:12 : 12 And the design of all he had in his heart for the outer squares of the house of the Lord, and for the rooms all round it, and for the store-houses of the house of the Lord, and for the store-houses for the holy things;
  • 1 Chr 28:19 : 19 All this, said David, the design for all these things, has been made dear to me in writing by the hand of the Lord.
  • Acts 7:44 : 44 Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 25:8-9
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    8And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.

    9Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.

  • Heb 8:1-4
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    1Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,

    2As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

    3Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

    4If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

  • 40And see that you make them from the design which you saw on the mountain.

  • 44Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

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    30And you are to make the House from the design which you saw on the mountain.

    31And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman:

  • Heb 9:1-6
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    1Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

    2For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.

    3And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies;

    4Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;

    5And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail.

    6Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.

  • 11But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

  • 8The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

  • Heb 8:6-7
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    6But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

    7For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

  • Heb 9:8-9
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    8The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;

    9And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

  • Heb 9:23-24
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    23For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

    24For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

  • 1For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

  • Num 8:4-5
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    4The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from its base to its flowers it was of hammered work; from the design which the Lord had given to Moses, he made the support for the lights.

    5And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 9:5-6
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    5And they took the things ordered by Moses, before the Tent of meeting, and all the people came near, waiting before the Lord.

    6And Moses said, This is what the Lord has said you are to do; and you will see the glory of the Lord.

  • 5And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;

  • 17For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

  • 10We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

  • 15And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning.

  • 7The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent,

  • Heb 9:20-21
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    20Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.

    21And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way.

  • 28For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

  • 20Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • 13And are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things:

  • Heb 3:2-3
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    2Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

    3And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.

  • 19Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders.

  • 10And Moses took the holy oil and put it on the House and on all the things in it, to make them holy.

  • 1And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they made the robes used for the work of the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

  • 22And then the Levites went in to do their work in the Tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the Lord had given Moses about the Levites were put into effect.

  • 21And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 15And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,

  • 12And the design of all he had in his heart for the outer squares of the house of the Lord, and for the rooms all round it, and for the store-houses of the house of the Lord, and for the store-houses for the holy things;

  • 21This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

  • 1Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.