The original recipients of this text would have heard these words with an awe and wonder that we could never know. They were very familiar with the curtain of separation described here. Sixty feet tall, thirty feet wide, and six inches thick it hung in the Temple in front of the most sacred of all spaces – the Holy of Holies. This was an area that was completely off-limits. Worshipers in that day were governed by strict rules of access.
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