Hebrews 8:5

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They serve at a place that is a pattern, a shadow, of what is in heaven. When Moses was about to make the tent, God warned him, “Be sure to make everything based on the plan I showed you on the mountain.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:12

He gave him plans for the courtyards of the Lord’s temple and for all the rooms around it. (These rooms served as treasuries for God’s temple and the gifts dedicated to God.)

1 Chronicles 28:19

⌞David said,⌟ “All this was written for me by the Lord’s hand. He made all the details of the plan clear to me.”

Exodus 25:40

Be sure to make them according to the plans you were shown on the mountain.”

Exodus 25:9

Make the tent and all its furnishings exactly like the plans I am showing you.

Exodus 26:30

“Set up the inner tent according to the plans you were shown on the mountain.

Exodus 27:8

“Make the altar out of boards so that it’s hollow inside. It must be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

Numbers 8:4

This is how the lamp stand was made: The whole lamp stand, from top to bottom, was hammered out of gold. It was made exactly like the one the Lord had shown Moses.

Matthew 2:12

God warned them in a dream not to go back to Herod. So they left for their country by another road.

Acts 7:44

“In the desert our ancestors had the tent of God’s promise. Moses built this tent exactly as God had told him. He used the model he had seen.

Colossians 2:17

These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body ⌞that casts the shadow⌟ belongs to Christ.

Hebrews 10:1

Moses’ Teachings with their yearly cycle of sacrifices are only a shadow of the good things in the future. They aren’t an exact likeness of those things. They can never make those who worship perfect.

Hebrews 11:7

Faith led Noah to listen when God warned him about the things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a ship to save his family. Through faith Noah condemned the world and received God’s approval that comes through faith.

Hebrews 12:25

Be careful that you do not refuse to listen when God speaks. Your ancestors didn’t escape when they refused to listen to God, who warned them on earth. We certainly won’t escape if we turn away from God, who warns us from heaven.

Hebrews 13:10

Those who serve at the tent have no right to eat what is sacrificed at our altar.

Hebrews 9:9

The first part of the tent is an example for the present time. The gifts and sacrifices that were brought there could not give the worshiper a clear conscience.

Joshua 22:28

So we thought, if this statement is made to us or to our descendants in the future, we will answer, ‘Look at the model of the Lord’s altar our ancestors made. They didn’t make it for burnt offerings or sacrifices but to stand as a witness between us.’

Revelation 15:5

After these things I looked, and I saw that the temple of the tent containing the words of God’s promise was open in heaven.