Cross references

Leviticus 16:2

And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

Leviticus 16:2 BSB
  1. a Or the Holy Place; also in verses 16, 17, 20, 23, and 27
  2. b Or atonement cover; here and throughout this chapter

Leviticus 16:2 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 30:10 (9 votes) and 1 Kings 8:10–12 (8 votes). 28 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Exodus 25 to Revelation 10.

GenesisMalachiMatthewRevelation

Which verses does Leviticus 16:2 point to?

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

  1. Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”

  2. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud. For the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD. …

  3. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

  4. Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

  5. But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.

  6. Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

  7. Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

  8. so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud. For the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

  9. At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, and the rocks were split.

  10. And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. Make two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat, …

  11. He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the mercy seat above the Testimony, so that he will not die.

  12. “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD.

  13. Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin. …

  14. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,

Which verses point to Leviticus 16:2?

The 10 strongest of 28.