◄ Hebrews 9:8 ►
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Good News Translation
The Holy Spirit clearly teaches from all these arrangements that the way into the Most Holy Place has not yet been opened as long as the outer tent still stands.

New Revised Standard Version
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary has not yet been disclosed as long as the first tent is still standing.

Contemporary English Version
All of this is the Holy Spirit's way of saying no one could enter the most holy place while the tent was still the place of worship.

New American Bible
In this way the holy Spirit shows that the way into the sanctuary had not yet been revealed while the outer tabernacle still had its place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Holy Ghost signifying this: That the way into the Holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Holy Ghost signifying this: That the way into the Holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing.

Holy Ghost.

Hebrews 3:7 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice,

Hebrews 10:15 And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said:

Isaiah 63:11 And he remembered the days of old of Moses, and of his people: Where is he that brought them up out of the sea, with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put in the midst of them the spirit of his Holy One?

Acts 7:51,52 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. . . .

Acts 28:25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, Paul speaking this one word: Well did the Holy Ghost speak to our fathers by Isaias the prophet,

Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.

2 Peter 1:21 For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.

the way.

Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies:

Hebrews 4:15,16 For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin. . . .

Hebrews 10:19-22 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ: . . .

John 10:7,9 Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. . . .

John 14:6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

Ephesians 2:18 For by him we have access both in one Spirit to the Father.

Context
The Earthly Tabernacle
…7But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people's ignorance: 8The Holy Ghost signifying this: That the way into the Holies was not yet made manifest, whilst the former tabernacle was yet standing. 9Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,…
Cross References
Luke 1:80
And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit: and was in the deserts until the day of his manifestation to Israel.

John 14:6
Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

Hebrews 3:7
Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice,

Hebrews 10:20
A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh:

Hebrews 9:7
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