It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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Hebrews 9:23
It was then necessary, that the similitudes of heauenly things should be purified with such things: but the heauenly things them selues are purified with better sacrifices then are these.
Parallel Translations
It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Cross References
1 Peter 1:19–21Hebrews 10:4Hebrews 9:14Hebrews 9:9–12Hebrews 9:24Hebrews 8:5Revelation 5:9Luke 24:46Colossians 2:17Luke 24:26Hebrews 10:10–17Hebrews 10:1John 14:3
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