The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
- BSB The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn down the middle.
- ESV while the sun’s light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
- NKJV Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
- NASB because the sun stopped shining; and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
- NLT The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle.
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- Heb 10:19–22Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
- Matt 27:51Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
- Heb 9:3–8After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
- Mark 15:38The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.
- Eph 2:14–18For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
- Lev 16:12–16He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
- Heb 6:19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
- 2 Chr 3:14He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.
- Exod 26:31–33“You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.
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