Hebrews 9:3-14 Behind the second curtain was the part called the Holy of Holies.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Behind the second curtain was the part called the Holy of Holies. ⁴ It had the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant all covered with gold. In this was a golden jar with the manna and Aaron's rod that sprouted and the tablets of the covenant. ⁵ Above it were cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of propitiation. Regarding these things it is not now possible to speak in detail. ⁶ But these things being thus arranged, the priests go constantly into the first part of the Tent, performing their services, ⁷ but into the second part the High Priest alone goes once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins ignorantly committed by the people. ⁸ The Holy Spirit shows this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been made plain while the first Tent is standing. ⁹ That is a symbol, for the time being, in accordance with which gifts and sacrifices are offered, though they cannot make the worshiper perfect in his conscience, ¹⁰ since they consist only of foods and drinks and various baths — rules respecting the flesh, imposed until the time of reformation. ¹¹ But when Christ came as High Priest of the good things that have come, he entered once for all through the greater and more perfect Tent not made by hands — that is, not of this creation — ¹² and not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, into the holy place, and thereby found eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the defiled, makes them holy as regards purity of their flesh, ¹⁴ how much more will the blood of Christ, who through an eternal Spirit offered himself an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works for the service of the living God.