Haweis(i)
1 THEN also the first tabernacle had indeed regulations for the divine service, and a sanctuary furnished.
2 For the tabernacle was prepared; the first part, in which was both the candlestick, and the table, and the shew-bread, which is called the holy.
3 But behind the second vail was the tabernacle, called the holy of holies:
4 having the golden censer, and the coffer of the covenant, overlaid with gold within and without, in which were the golden urn containing the manna, and Aaron's rod which had budded, and the stone tables of the covenant;
5 and above, over it the cherubim of glory, overshadowing the propitiatory.
6 Now when these things were thus disposed, the priests entered continually into the first tabernacle indeed, performing the divine services:
7 but into the second once in every year entered the high-priest alone, not without blood, which he offered for his own inadvertencies, and for those of the people:
8 the Holy Ghost thus signifying, that the way into the holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the first tabernacle held its station;
9 which figurative representation [continues] unto the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, with respect to conscience, make him perfect who performs the services,