Mark 15:38
Good News Translation
The curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

New Revised Standard Version
And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

Contemporary English Version
At once the curtain in the temple tore in two from top to bottom.

New American Bible
The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom.

Exodus 26:31-34 Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and goodly variety: . . .

Exodus 40:20,21 And he put the testimony in the ark, thrusting bars underneath, and the oracle above. . . .

Leviticus 16:2 And he commanded him, saying: Speak to Aaron thy brother, that he enter not at all into the sanctuary, which is within the veil before the propitiatory, with which the ark is covered, lest he die, (for I will appear in a cloud over the oracle),

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2 Chronicles 3:8-14 He made also the house of the holy of holies: the length of it according to the breadth of the temple, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it in like manner twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with plates of gold, amounting to about six hundred talents. . . .

Matthew 27:51-53 And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom: and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent. . . .

Luke 23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

Hebrews 4:14-16 Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession. . . .

Hebrews 6:19 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil:

Hebrews 9:3-12 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies: . . .

Hebrews 10:19-23 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ: . . .

Context
The Death of Jesus
37And Jesus, having cried out with a loud voice, gave up the ghost. 38And the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom. 39And the centurion who stood over against him, seeing that crying out in this manner he had given up the ghost. said: Indeed this man was the son of God.…
Cross References
Exodus 26:31
Thou shalt make also a veil of violet, and purple, and scarlet twice dyed, and fine twisted linen, wrought with embroidered work and goodly variety:

Matthew 27:51
And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top even to the bottom: and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent.

Luke 23:45
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

Mark 15:37
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