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When these things had been set up accordingly, the priests went constantly into the first tabernacle and executed the service of God. But into the second went the high priest alone, once every year – and not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the ignorance of the people. By this the Holy Spirit was signifying that the way of holy things was not yet opened, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing. That tabernacle was a similitude for the time then present, and in which gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not make the offerer perfect as pertaining to the conscience, 10 with only foods and drinks, and various washings and observances of the flesh, which were prescribed until the time of reformation.

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