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What is the significance of the temple veil, its rending at the crucifixion (Matt 27:51), and the "new and living way through the veil" (Heb 10:20)? How does the veil relate to the Day of Atonement access to the Most Holy Place? Does "through the veil, that is to say, his flesh" (Heb 10:20) identify Christ's flesh with the veil itself? What did the rending of the veil accomplish -- does it abolish the two-compartment distinction, or does it signify that access to God's presence is now available through Christ?

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VAIL

• (Veil, curtain)
• Hangings used in the tabernacle to separate the Holy of Holies (the Most Holy Place) from the Holy Place
• Called the second veil HEB 6:19; 9:3
• Ordinances prescribing EXO 26:31-33
• Made by Bezaleel and Aholiab EXO 36:35,36
• See VEIL
• A covering for the ark of the covenant EXO 35:12; 39:34; 40:21; NUM 4:5
• Of the temple 2CH 3:14
• Torn from the top to the bottom at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus MAT 27:51; MRK 15:38; LUK 23:45
• FIGURATIVE HEB 10:20

VEIL

• Worn
• By Rebekah GEN 24:65
• By Tamar GEN 38:14,19
• By Moses, to screen his face when he descended from Mount Sinai EXO 34:33,35; 2CO 3:13-16
• See DRESS
• See WIMPLE

ATONEMENT

• For tabernacle and furniture LEV 16:15-20,33
• In consummation of the Levites NUM 8:21
• For those defiled by the dead NUM 6:11
• Made for houses LEV 14:53
• For sin, see below
• By meat offerings LEV 5:11-13
• By jewels NUM 31:50
• By money EXO 30:12-16; LEV 5:15,16; 2KI 12:16
• By incense NUM 16:46-50
• By animals, see below
• By Jesus, see below
• DAY OF
• Time of EXO 30:10; LEV 23:27; 25:9; NUM 29:7
• How observed EXO 30:10; LEV 16:2-34; 23:27-32; NUM 29:7-11; ACT 27:9; HEB 5:3; 9:7,19,22
• MADE BY ANIMAL SACRIFICES EXO 29:36; 30:12-16; LEV 1:4; 4:20,22-35; 5:6-10; 6:7; 9:7; 10:17; 12:6-8; 14:12-32; 16:6,10,11,15-19,24-34; 17:11; 19:22; NUM 15:22-28; 28:22,30; 29:5,10,11; HEB 9:22
• MADE BY JESUS
• Divinely ordained LUK 2:30,31; GAL 4:4,5; EPH 1:3-12,17-22; 2:4-10; COL 1:19,20; 1PE 1:20; REV 13:8
• A mystery 1CO 2:7
• With context 1PE 1:8-12
• Made but once HEB 7:27; 9:24-28; 10:10,12,14; 1PE 3:18
• Redemption by MAT 20:28; ACT 20:28; GAL 3:13; 1TI 2:6; HEB 9:12; REV 5:9
• Typified GEN 4:4 with HEB 11:4; GEN 22:2 with HEB 11:17,19; EXO 12:5,11,14 with 1CO 5:7; EXO 24:8 with HEB 9:20; LEV 16:30,34 with HEB 9:7,12,28; LEV 17:11 with HEB 9:22
• UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO PSA 40:6,7; ISA 53:4-12; DAN 9:24-27; ZEC 13:1; MAT 26:28; LUK 22:20; 24:46,47; JHN 1:29,36; 6:51; 11:49-51; ACT 17:2,3; 20:28; ROM 3:24-26; 4:25; 5:1,2,6-11,15-21; 1CO 1:17,18,23,24; 15:3; 2CO 5:18,19; GAL 1:3,4; 4:4,5; EPH 1:7; 2:13-18; 5:2,25; COL 1:14,19-22; 1TH 5:9,10; 1TI 2:5,6; TIT 2:14; HEB 1:3; 2:9,17; 9:12-15,25,26; 10:1-20; 12:24; 13:12,20,21; 1PE 1:18-20; 2:24; 3:18; 1JN 1:7; 2:2; 3:5; 4:10; 5:6; REV 1:5; 5:9; 7:14; 12:11

TABERNACLE

• One existed before Moses received the pattern authorized on Mount Sinai EXO 33:7-11
• The one instituted by Moses was called SANCTUARY (EXO 25:8), TABERNACLE/TENT OF MEETING (EXO 27:21), etc.
• Pattern of, revealed to Moses EXO 25:9; 26:30; 39:32,42,43; ACT 7:44; HEB 8:5
• Description of:
• The frame EXO 26:15-37; 36:20-38
• The outer covering EXO 25:5; 26:7-14; 36:14-19
• The curtains of EXO 26:1-14,31-37; 27:9-16; 35:15,17; 36:8-19,35,37
• The courtyard of EXO 27:9-17; 38:9-16,18; 40:8,33
• The Holy Place EXO 26:31-37; 40:22-26; HEB 9:2-6,8
• The Most Holy Place EXO 26:33-35; 40:20,21; HEB 9:3-5,7,8
• The furniture of EXO 25:10-40; 27:1-8,19; 37; 38:1-8
• Filled with the cloud of glory EXO 40:34-38
• Sprinkled with blood LEV 16:15-20; HEB 9:21,23
• Strangers (foreigners) forbidden to enter NUM 1:51
• Symbol of spiritual things PSA 15:1; HEB 8:2,5; 9:1-12,24

CURTAINS

• For the tabernacle EXO 26; 27:9-18; 36:8-18
• In the palace of Ahasuerus EST 1:6
• FIGURATIVE ISA 40:22; 54:2; JER 4:20; 10:20; 49:29

CHERUBIM

• Eastward of the garden of Eden GEN 3:24
• In the tabernacle EXO 25:18-20; 37:7-9
• The ark of the covenant rested beneath the wings of 1KI 8:6,7; 2CH 5:7,8; HEB 9:5
• Figures of, embroidered on the walls of the tabernacle EXO 26:1; 36:8 and on the curtain EXO 26:31; 36:35
• In the temple 1KI 6:23-29; 2CH 3:10-13
• Figures of on the curtain 2CH 3:14
• In Ezekiel's vision of the temple EZK 41:18-20,25
• FIGURATIVE EZK 28:14-16
• SYMBOLICAL EZK 1; 10

BOLDNESS

• Of THE RIGHTEOUS PRO 14:26; 28:1; EPH 3:12; HEB 4:16; 10:19; 13:6; 1JN 2:28; 4:17
• INSTANCES OF, IN PRAYER Abraham GEN 18:23-32; Moses EXO 33:12-18

LINEN

• Exported from Egypt 1KI 10:28; EZK 27:7; from Syria EZK 27:16
• Curtains of the tabernacle made of EXO 26:1; 27:9
• Vestments of priests made of EXO 28:5-8,15,39-42
• The corpse of Jesus was wrapped in MRK 15:46; JHN 20:5
• FIGURATIVE: Pure and white, of righteousness REV 15:6; 19:8,14

COLORS

• BLACK: Symbol of affliction and calamity
• BLUE: Symbol of deity EXO 24:10; 25:3,4; 26:1; 28:28,37; NUM 4:5-12; 2CH 3:14
• Symbol of royalty EST 8:15; EZK 23:6
• CRIMSON, RED, PURPLE, AND SCARLET: Symbols of various ideas
• Of iniquity ISA 1:18; REV 17:3,4
• Of royalty JDG 8:26; DAN 5:7,16,29; MAT 27:28
• These colors figured largely in tabernacle furnishing and priestly vestments as types and shadows of the atonement EXO 25:3-5; 26:1,14,31,36; 36:8,19,35,37; 28:4-8,15,31,33; LEV 14:4,6; HEB 9:19-23
• WHITE: Symbol of holiness
• The high priest's holy garments were made of white linen LEV 16:4,32
• REV 15:6; 19:8,14

SYMBOLS AND SIMILITUDES

• (Selected entries relevant to veil study)
• Darkness, of God's inscrutability EXO 20:21; LEV 16:2; 1KI 8:12; PSA 18:11; 97:2; HEB 12:18,19
• Tabernacle PSA 15:1; EZK 37:27; HEB 8:2,5; 9:1-12,23,24
• The tearing of the curtain in the temple MAT 27:51; MRK 1:38; LUK 23:45
• The whole system of Mosaic rites HEB 9:9,10,18-23

Related Topics Discovered

FLESH (from semantic search)

• GAL 5:19-21 (fruits of)
• JHN 6:51-63 (body of Christ symbolized by bread)

HIGH PRIEST / PRIEST

• GEN 14:18; HEB 5:6,10,11; 6:20; 7:1-21

CONSECRATION

• EXO 29; LEV 8

HOLY PLACE (See TABERNACLE, TEMPLE)

• MAT 27:51; MRK 15:38; REV 11; REV 15:5-8