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For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, this high priest[a] had to offer something, too. Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because other men offer the gifts prescribed by the Law. They serve in a sanctuary that is a copy, a shadow of the heavenly one. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tent: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:3 Lit. this one
  2. Hebrews 8:5 Cf. Exod 25:40