Williams(i)
3 But behind the second curtain is the tent that is called the holy of holies,
4 with its golden incense-altar and the chest for the covenant, completely covered with gold, and in it a golden jar which held the manna, Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets on which the covenant was written;
5 and above the chest were the winged creatures, the symbols of God's glorious presence, overshadowing the mercy seat, of which I cannot now speak in detail.
6 With these arrangements completed in this way, the priests in conducting their official services regularly go into the outer part of the tent of worship;
7 but into the second or inner part nobody but the high priest may go, and he only once a year, and never without blood which he offers for himself and for the sins committed in ignorance by the people.
8 By this the Holy Spirit was showing that there was as yet no access to the real sanctuary while the outer tent was still in existence,