⁵ They serve in a system of worship that is only a copy, a shadow of the real one in heaven. For when Moses was getting ready to build the Tabernacle, God gave him this warning: “Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern I have shown you here on the mountain.”^[a]

¹⁷ For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come. And Christ himself is that reality.

⁴⁰ “Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern I have shown you here on the mountain.

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

10 The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.

³⁰ “Set up this Tabernacle according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.