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Bible Verses About The Sacred Vail

19 verses · 13 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. "You are to make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen. Make it with k'ruvim worked in, that have been crafted by a skilled artisan.

  2. Hang it with gold hooks on four acacia-wood posts overlaid with gold and standing in four silver sockets.

  3. Hang the curtain below the fasteners. Then bring the ark for the testimony inside the curtain; the curtain will be the divider for you between the Holy Place and the Especially Holy Place.

  4. He made the curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely woven linen. He made them with k'ruvim worked in that had been crafted by a skilled artisan.

  5. Put in it the ark for the testimony, and conceal the ark with the curtain.

  6. ADONAI said to Moshe, "Tell your brother Aharon not to come at just any time into the Holy Place beyond the curtain, in front of the ark-cover which is on the ark, so that he will not die; because I appear in the cloud over the ark-cover.

  7. "Here is how Aharon is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering.

  8. He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson material and of fine linen, with a design of k'ruvim worked into it.

  9. For before him he grew up like a young plant, like a root out of dry ground. He was not well-formed or especially handsome; we saw him, but his appearance did not attract us.

  10. At that moment the parokhet in the Temple was ripped in two from top to bottom; and there was an earthquake, with rocks splitting apart.

  11. And the parokhet in the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

  12. the sun did not shine. Also the parokhet in the Temple was split down the middle.

  13. Behind the second parokhet was a tent called the Holiest Place,

  14. With things so arranged, the cohanim go into the outer tent all the time to discharge their duties;

  15. but only the cohen hagadol enters the inner one; and he goes in only once a year, and he must always bring blood, which he offers both for himself and for the sins committed in ignorance by the people.

  16. By this arrangement, the Ruach HaKodesh showed that so long as the first Tent had standing, the way into the Holiest Place was still closed.

  17. For the Messiah has entered a Holiest Place which is not man-made and merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, in order to appear now on our behalf in the very presence of God.

  18. So, brothers, we have confidence to use the way into the Holiest Place opened by the blood of Yeshua.

  19. He inaugurated it for us as a new and living way through the parokhet, by means of his flesh.