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When these things were all in place, the priests regularly entered the first room[a] as they performed their religious duties. But only the high priest ever entered the Most Holy Place, and only once a year. And he always offered blood for his own sins and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. By these regulations the Holy Spirit revealed that the entrance to the Most Holy Place was not freely open as long as the Tabernacle[b] and the system it represented were still in use.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:6 Greek first tent.
  2. 9:8 Or the first room; Greek reads the first tent.

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