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Hebrews 8:5

The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

Hebrews 8:5 BSB
  1. a Exodus 25:40; see also Exodus 26:30.

Hebrews 8:5 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 13 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 25:40 (22 votes) and Colossians 2:17 (17 votes). 24 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Exodus 25 to Hebrews 12.

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Which verses does Hebrews 8:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Exodus 25:4022 votes

    See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

  2. Colossians 2:1717 votes

    These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

  3. Hebrews 10:115 votes

    For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

  4. Exodus 26:309 votes

    So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

  5. Exodus 27:88 votes

    Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

  6. 1 Chronicles 28:197 votes

    “All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”

  7. Numbers 8:46 votes

    This is how the lampstand was constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.

  8. 1 Chronicles 28:126 votes

    The plans contained everything David had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of God and of the dedicated things,

  9. Hebrews 9:95 votes

    It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

  10. Hebrews 9:23–245 votes

    So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.

  11. Acts 7:444 votes
  12. Hebrews 11:74 votes
  13. Hebrews 12:254 votes

Which verses point to Hebrews 8:5?

The 10 strongest of 24.