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Every high priest is chosen to offer gifts and sacrifices. So this high priest must have something to offer also.

If he were still on earth, he would not be a priest. There are priests on earth already who offer gifts the way the law says.

The work they do shows what the work of the priest in heaven is. When Moses made a house for God, here is what God told him to do. He said, `Be sure you make everything like I showed you on the mountain.'

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Every high priest(A) is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices,(B) and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.(C) If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.(D) They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy(E) and shadow(F) of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned(G) when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”[a](H)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:5 Exodus 25:40