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For a tabernacle (tent) was erected, in the outer division or compartment of which were the lampstand and the table with [its loaves of] the showbread set forth. [This portion] is called the Holy Place.(A)

But [inside] beyond the second curtain or veil, [there stood another] tabernacle [division] known as the Holy of Holies.(B)

It had the golden [a]altar of incense and the ark (chest) of the covenant, covered over with wrought gold. This [ark] contained a golden jar which held the manna and the rod of Aaron that sprouted and the [two stone] slabs of the covenant [bearing the Ten Commandments].(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:4 Henry Alford, The Greek New Testament, with Notes: Not kept permanently in the Holy of Holies, but taken in on the Day of Atonement.

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