Hebrews 9:7

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

But [only] once a year the head priest goes alone into the inner room [i.e., Holy of Holies], and never without [animal] blood, which he offers [as a sacrifice] for himself and for the sins done in ignorance by the people.

Cross References

Hebrews 7:27

He does not need to offer up [animal] sacrifices every day like those head priests did [Note: The head priest here is represented as being in charge of the daily sacrifices actually offered by the regular priests], first for His own sins and then for the people’s sins. For He did this once for all time when He offered up Himself [on the cross].

Hebrews 10:3

But those sacrifices were [only] a reminder of [the people’s] sins year after year,

Ephesians 4:18

Their understanding [of spiritual things] is darkened and excluded from the [spiritual] life that God gives, because of the ignorance in their minds and the stubbornness in their hearts.

Hebrews 6:19

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, [a hope] that is safe and secure, and one that enters the curtain [i.e., figuratively, of the heavenly sanctuary],

Hebrews 9:3

And behind the second curtain [of] the Tabernacle was [a room] called the “Holy of Holies.”