Leviticus 23:27

23:27 “The ¹  tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. ²  It is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must humble yourselves ³  and present a gift to the Lord.

Exodus 26:33-34

26:33 You are to hang this curtain under the clasps and bring the ark of the testimony in there behind the curtain. ⁴  The curtain will make a division for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. ⁵  26:34 You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.

Exodus 30:10

30:10 Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement; ⁶  once in the year ⁷  he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.” ⁸ 

Exodus 40:20-21

40:20 He took the testimony and put it in the ark, attached the poles to the ark, and then put the atonement lid on the ark. 40:21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung ⁹  the protecting curtain, ¹⁰  and shielded the ark of the testimony from view, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:1

Setting Up the Sanctuary

40:1 ¹¹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses: ¹² 

Exodus 8:6

8:6 So Aaron extended his hand over the waters of Egypt, and frogs ¹³  came up and covered the land of Egypt.

Hebrews 9:3

9:3 And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.

Hebrews 9:7-8

9:7 But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, ¹⁴  and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance. ¹⁵  9:8 The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle ¹⁶  was standing.

Hebrews 10:19-20

Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith

10:19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, ¹⁷  since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 10:20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us ¹⁸  through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, ¹⁹ 

[23:27]  ¹ tn Heb “Surely the tenth day” or perhaps “Precisely the tenth day.” The Hebrew adverbial particle אַךְ (’akh) is left untranslated by most recent English versions; cf. however NASB “On exactly the tenth day.”

[23:27]  ² sn See the description of this day and its regulations in Lev 16 and the notes there.

[23:27]  ³ tn Heb “you shall humble your souls.” See the note on Lev 16:29 above.

[26:33]  ⁴ tn The traditional expression is “within the veil,” literally “into the house (or area) of the (special) curtain.”

[26:33]  ⁵ tn Or “the Holy of Holies.”

[30:10]  ⁶ tn The word “atonements” (plural in Hebrew) is a genitive showing the result or product of the sacrifice made.

[30:10]  ⁷ sn This ruling presupposes that the instruction for the Day of Atonement has been given, or at the very least, is to be given shortly. That is the one day of the year that all sin and all ritual impurity would be removed.

[30:10]  ⁸ sn The phrase “most holy to the Lord” means that the altar cannot be used for any other purpose than what is stated here.

[40:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “set up,” if it includes more than the curtain.

[40:21]  ¹⁰ tn Or “shielding” (NIV); Heb “the veil of the covering” (cf. KJV).

[40:1]  ¹¹ sn All of Exod 39:32-40:38 could be taken as a unit. The first section (39:32-43) shows that the Israelites had carefully and accurately completed the preparation and brought everything they had made to Moses: The work of the Lord builds on the faithful obedience of the people. In the second section are the instruction and the implementation (40:1-33): The work of the Lord progresses through the unifying of the work. The last part (40:34-38) may take the most attention: When the work was completed, the glory filled the tabernacle: By his glorious presence, the Lord blesses and directs his people in their worship.

[40:1]  ¹² tn Heb “and Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying.”

[8:6]  ¹³ tn The noun is singular, a collective. B. Jacob notes that this would be the more natural way to refer to the frogs (Exodus, 260).

[9:7]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “the second tent.”

[9:7]  ¹⁵ tn Or perhaps “the unintentional sins of the people”; Grk “the ignorances of the people.” Cf. BDAG 13 s.v. ἀγνόημα, “sin committed in ignorance/unintentionally.” This term seems to be simply a synonym for “sins” (cf. Heb 5:2) and does not pick up the distinction made in Num 15:22-31 between unwitting sin and “high-handed” sin. The Day of Atonement ritual in Lev 16 covered all the sins of the people, not just the unwitting ones.

[9:8]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “the first tent.” The literal phrase “the first tent” refers to either (1) the outer chamber of the tabernacle in the wilderness (as in vv. 2, 6) or (2) the entire tabernacle as a symbol of the OT system of approaching God. The second is more likely given the contrast that follows in vv. 11-12.

[10:19]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

[10:20]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “that he inaugurated for us as a fresh and living way,” referring to the entrance mentioned in v. 19.

[10:20]  ¹⁹ sn Through his flesh. In a bold shift the writer changes from a spatial phrase (Christ opened the way through the curtain into the inner sanctuary) to an instrumental phrase (he did this through [by means of] his flesh in his sacrifice of himself), associating the two in an allusion to the splitting of the curtain in the temple from top to bottom (Matt 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45). Just as the curtain was split, so Christ’s body was broken for us, to give us access into God’s presence.