Hebrews 9:3

New Living Translation

Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second room called the Most Holy Place.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Behind the second curtain was a tent called the most holy place.

King James Version (1611)
And after the second vaile, the Tabernacle which is called ye Holiest of all:

King James Version
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

English Standard Version
Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place,

New American Standard Bible
Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Most Holy Place,

New Century Version
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

Legacy Standard Bible
And behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

Berean Standard Bible
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,

Contemporary English Version
Behind the curtain was the most holy place.

Complete Jewish Bible
Behind the second parokhet was a tent called the Holiest Place,

Darby Translation
but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies,

Easy-to-Read Version
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And after the seconde vaile was the Tabernacle, which is called the Holiest of all,

George Lamsa Translation
But the inner tabernacle, which is within the veil of the second door, was called the Holy of Holies.

Good News Translation
Behind the second curtain was the tent called the Most Holy Place.

Lexham English Bible
And after the second curtain was a tent called the holy of holies,

Literal Translation
But behind the second veil is a tabernacle, being called Holy of Holies,

Amplified Bible
Behind the second veil there was another tabernacle [the inner one or second section] known as the Holy of Holies,

American Standard Version
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies;

Bible in Basic English
And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies;

Hebrew Names Version
After the second veil, the tent which is called the Holy of Holies,

International Standard Version
Behind the second curtain was the part of the tabernacle called the Holy of Holies,Exodus 26:31,33; Hebrews 6:19;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But the interior tabernacle, that was within the second veil, was called the Holy of Holies:

Murdock Translation
But the inner tabernacle, which was within the second veil, was called the Holy of Holies.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But after the seconde vayle [was] a tabernacle, which is called holyest of al:

English Revised Version
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies;

World English Bible
After the second veil, the tent which is called the Holy of Holies,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called The holy of holies,

Weymouth's New Testament
And behind the second veil was a sacred tent called the Holy of holies.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And after the veil, the secounde tabernacle, that is seid sancta sanctorum, that is, hooli of hooli thingis;

Update Bible Version
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies;

Webster's Bible Translation
And after the second vail, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;

New English Translation
And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.

New King James Version
and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of All,

New Life Bible
Behind the second curtain there was another tent. This was called the Holiest Place of All.

New Revised Standard
Behind the second curtain was a tent called the Holy of Holies.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, after the second veil, a tent, that which is called Most Holy:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies:

Revised Standard Version
Behind the second curtain stood a tent called the Holy of Holies,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But with in the secode vayle was ther a tabernacle which is called holiest of all

Young's Literal Translation
and after the second vail a tabernacle that is called `Holy of holies,'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But behynde the seconde vayle was the Tabernacle which is called Holiest of all,

Mace New Testament (1729)
and beyond the veil, was the second part of the tabernacle which is called the holy of holys;

Simplified Cowboy Version
The second and innermost part of the tent was the Most Holy Place.

Contextual Overview

¹ That first covenant between God and Israel had regulations for worship and a place of worship here on earth. ² There were two rooms in that Tabernacle. In the first room were a lampstand, a table, and sacred loaves of bread on the table. This room was called the Holy Place. ³ Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second room called the Most Holy Place. ⁴ In that room were a gold incense altar and a wooden chest called the Ark of the Covenant, which was covered with gold on all sides. Inside the Ark were a gold jar containing manna, Aaron's staff that sprouted leaves, and the stone tablets of the covenant. ⁵ Above the Ark were the cherubim of divine glory, whose wings stretched out over the Ark's cover, the place of atonement. But we cannot explain these things in detail now. ⁶ When these things were all in place, the priests regularly entered the first room as they performed their religious duties. ⁷ 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the second: Hebrews 6:19, Hebrews 10:20, Exodus 26:31-33, Exodus 36:35-38, Exodus 40:3, Exodus 40:21, 2 Chronicles 3:14, Isaiah 25:7, Matthew 27:51

the Holiest: Hebrews 9:8, Hebrews 10:19, 1 Kings 8:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:33 - the holy place Exodus 26:36 - hanging Exodus 30:6 - veil Exodus 38:21 - tabernacle of testimony Leviticus 16:2 - he come not Leviticus 16:15 - bring Numbers 4:5 - they shall Numbers 18:7 - within Numbers 29:17 - General 1 Kings 6:16 - built them 1 Kings 6:19 - to set 2 Chronicles 3:8 - the most holy Ezekiel 41:4 - This Mark 15:38 - General Luke 23:45 - and the veil Romans 9:4 - the service

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.

Genesis 9:3
I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.

Genesis 9:5
"And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person's life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die.

Genesis 9:12
Then God said, "I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, for all generations to come.

Genesis 9:14
When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds,

Genesis 9:15
and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life.

Genesis 9:21
One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.

Genesis 9:22
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers.

Genesis 9:25
Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham: "May Canaan be cursed! May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives."

Genesis 9:26
Then Noah said, "May the Lord , the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And after the second vail,.... Were there more vails than one? the Scripture speaks but of one, Exodus 26:31 there was indeed an hanging for the door of the tent, but that is not called a vail; nor was there more than one vail in the tabernacle, nor in the temple of Solomon; but in the second temple, under which the apostle lived, there were two vails, which divided between the holy place, and the holy of holies; and the innermost of these the apostle means: and so the Jewish writers r constantly affirm, that there were two vails between the said places, and that two new ones were made every year s. So on the day of atonement, when the high priest went into the most holy place, with the incense, it is said t, that

"he walked in the temple till he came between שתי הפרוכות, "the two vails", which divide between the holy, and holy of holies, and there was the space of a cubit between them.''

The reason of these two vails may be seen in the account Maimonides gives of this matter u:

"in the first temple there was a wall which divided between the holy, and holy of holies, the thickness of a cubit; but when they built the second temple, it was doubted by them, whether the thickness of the wall was of the measure of the holy place, or of the measure of the holy of holies; wherefore they made the holy of holies twenty cubits complete, and the holy place forty cubits complete, and they left the space of a cubit between the holy, and the holy of holies; and they did not build a wall in the second temple, but they made שתי פרוכות, "two vails", one on the side of the holy of holies, and the other on the side of the holy place, and between them a cubit answerable to the thickness of the wall, which was in the first temple; but in the first temple there was but one vail only, as it is said, Exodus 26:33 and the vail shall divide unto you, c.''

And to this account other Jewish writers w agree and the space between the two vails is called by them טרקסין x, ταραξις, from the trouble and perplexity this affair gave them. This vail, or vails, might represent the sin of man, which separates between God and men, excludes from heaven; but is removed by the death of Christ, when the vail was rent in twain; so that now there is an open way to heaven; Christ has entered into it by his own blood; and saints have boldness to enter there by faith and hope now, and shall hereafter personally enter into it: or else this vail may signify the ceremonial law, which separated between Jew and Gentile, and is abolished by the death of Christ: or rather it was typical of the flesh, or human nature of Christ, called the vail of his flesh, Hebrews 10:20. Now within this second vail was

the tabernacle, or that part of it, the second part,

which is called the holiest of all; which was either typical of Christ, who is called the most Holy, Daniel 9:24 he being so in both natures, divine and human; or of heaven, for the holy places, made with hands, were figures of heaven, Hebrews 9:24 for its holiness, it being the habitation of the holy God, holy angels, and spirits of just men made perfect; and for its invisibility, and the unseen things which faith and hope, which enter within the vail, are the evidence of; and for the things that are in it, typified by the following ones.

r T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 54. 1. & Cetubot, fol. 106. 1. Vid. Philo de Vita Mosis, l. 3. p. 667. s Misn. Shekalim, c. 8. sect. 5. Maimon. Cele Hamikdash, c. 7. sect. 16. t Misna Yoma, c. 5. sect. 1. Vid. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 10. fol. 8. 3. u Hilchot Beth Habbechira, c. 4. sect. 2. w Gloss. & Tosephot in T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 51. 2. & Bartenora in Misn. Yoma, c. 5. sect. 1. & in Middot, c. 4. sect. 7. x Misn. Middot ib. & T. Bab. Yoma ib. & Gloss. in T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 106. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And after the second veil - There were two “veils” to the tabernacle. The one which is described in Exodus 26:36-37, was called “the hanging for the door of the tent,” and was made of “blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen,” and was suspended on five pillars of shittim-wood, overlaid with gold. This answered for a door to the whole tabernacle. The second or inner veil, here referred to, divided the holy from the most holy place. This is described in Exodus 26:31-33. It was made of the same materials as the other, though it would seem in a more costly manner, and with more embroidered work. On this veil the figures of the cherubim were curiously wrought. The design of this veil was to separate the holy from the most holy place; and in regard to its symbolical meaning we can be at no loss, for the apostle Paul has himself explained it in this chapter; see notes on Hebrews 9:8-14. “The tabernacle.” That is, the inner tabernacle; or what more properly was called the tabernacle. The name was given to either of the two rooms into which it was divided, or to the whole structure.

Which is called the Holiest of all - It was called “the Most Holy place;” “the Holy of Holies;” or “the Holiest of all.” It was so called because the symbol of the divine presence - the “Shekinah” - dwelt there between the Cherubim.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 9:3. And after the second veil — The first veil, of which the apostle has not yet spoken, was at the entrance of the holy place, and separated the temple from the court, and prevented the people, and even the Levites, from seeing what was in the holy place.

The second veil, of which the apostle speaks here, separated the holy place from the holy of holies.

The tabernacle, which is called the Holiest of all — That is, that part of the tabernacle which is called the holy of holies.