Hebrews 8:5

WEB

⁵who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

KJV

⁵Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

BSB

⁵The 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.”

FBV

⁵The place they serve is a copy, a mere shadow of what is in heaven. That's what God told Moses when he was going to set up the Tabernacle: “Be careful to make everything according to the blueprint you were shown on the mountain.”

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References

Exodus 25:40

⁴⁰See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

Extra References

Exodus 25:40

⁴⁰See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

Colossians 2:17

¹⁷which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

Hebrews 10:1

¹For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Exodus 26:30

³⁰You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

Exodus 27:8

⁸You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.

1 Chronicles 28:19

¹⁹“All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from the LORD’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”

1 Chronicles 28:12

¹²and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the LORD’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;

Hebrews 9:23-24

²³It 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. ²⁴For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Hebrews 9:9

⁹This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,

Numbers 8:4

⁴This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses.