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Hebrews 9:10
10The old rules taught people about different kinds of food and drink. They taught about how people should wash in special ways. Those rules were about people's bodies. They had authority only until the time when God would make things new and better.
Hebrews 9:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
- New International Version (NIV)They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
- English Standard Version (ESV)but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
- New King James Version (NKJV)concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
Context of Hebrews 9:10
8In this way, God's Holy Spirit was showing that the most holy place was not yet open to everyone. While the tent with its first room was still there, those were the rules for people to worship God. 9This is like a picture that means something for us today. It teaches us about the gifts and sacrifices that people offered to God, to worship him. When someone gave those things to God, it could not make him clean again in his mind. The old rules taught people about different kinds of food and drink. They taught about how people should wash in special ways. Those rules were about people's bodies. They had authority only until the time when God would make things new and better. 11But now Christ has come as our special priest. He brings us the good things that are now here. He has gone into God's own place in heaven. That is a greater and much better tent than the old tabernacle. No person made this tent. It does not belong to this world at all. 12Christ went into the Most Holy Place on our behalf. He did this once, for all time. He did not take with him the blood of goats or young cows when he went in there. Instead, he took the blood of his own death to offer to God. In that way, he made us free from sin for ever.
Read all of Hebrews 9Hebrews 9:10 word by word
μόνον ἐπὶ βρώμασιν καὶ πόμασιν καὶ διαφόροις βαπτισμοῖς, δικαιώματα σαρκὸς μέχρι καιροῦ διορθώσεως ἐπικείμενα.¶Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- onlyμόνονmonon · onlyG3440
- inἐπίepi · upon/to/againstG1909
- meatsβρῶμαbrōma · foodG1033
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- drinksπόμαpoma · drinkG4188
- diversδιάφοροςdiaphoros · differentG1313
- washingsβαπτισμόςbaptismos · baptismG909
- carnalσάρξsarx · fleshG4561
- ordinancesδικαίωμαdikaiōma · righteous actG1345
- imposedἐπίκειμαιepikeimai · to lay onG1945
- untilμέχριmechri mechris · untilG3360
- the timeκαιρόςkairos · time/right timeG2540
- of reformationδιόρθωσιςdiorthōsis · reformationG1357
Cross-references for Hebrews 9:10
- Hebrews 13:9Some people teach all kinds of strange new things. Do not let them lead you away from God's true message. It is good that God is very kind to us. That is what makes us strong inside ourselves. Rules about what foods we should eat do not make us strong like that. Those rules have never helped the people who tried to obey them.
- Leviticus 11:2‘Some animals walk on the land. Tell Israel's people which of these animals they can eat.
- Deuteronomy 14:3Do not eat anything that God says is unclean.
- Ezekiel 4:14Then I said, ‘No, Almighty Lord, I could not use human dung. It would make me unclean. Since I was a child I have never eaten any food that would make me unclean. I have never eaten meat from a dead animal that people have found. I have not eaten meat from an animal that wild animals have killed.’
- Acts 10:13Then Peter heard a voice that said to him, ‘Peter, stand up and kill some of these animals. Then you can cook them and eat the meat.’
- Colossians 2:16Some people may tell you that it is wrong for you to eat or to drink certain things. Or they make rules about special festival days, about new moons, or about the Jewish days for rest. Do not agree with people like that.
- Hebrews 6:2We have already learned about how to become clean. We know that leaders put their hands on other Christians to pray for God's help. We know that God will raise dead people to live again. And we know that God will judge every person one day at the end of time.
- Hebrews 10:22So we should come near to God and we should not be afraid. But we must be honest and we must continue to trust him. He has made us clean from the dirt of our sins. Our thoughts no longer give us trouble about our sins. We have become clean. It is like he has washed our bodies with clean water.
- Exodus 29:4Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Use water to wash them there and make them clean.
- Exodus 30:19Aaron and his sons must use the water from the bowl to wash their hands and their feet.
- Exodus 40:12Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Wash them with water.
- Leviticus 14:8The person who had the disease must wash his clothes. He must wash his body with water and he must cut off all his hair. Then he will be clean. He can go into the camp. But he must stay outside the home that he has made from animal skins for seven days.
- Leviticus 16:4He must wash his body before he puts on his special clothes. He must wear his linen robe and linen clothes next to his body. They are holy. He must tie a linen belt round his body. He must put the linen hat on his head. These clothes are holy.
- Leviticus 17:15An Israelite or a foreign person may find a dead animal. If he eats it, he must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening. Then he will become clean. A person might find an animal or a bird that a wild animal has killed. He must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening.
- Leviticus 22:6The son of Aaron who touches any of these things will be unclean until evening. He must not eat any of the holy gifts until he washes his body.
- Numbers 19:7Then he must wash his clothes and he must wash his body with water. After that, he can come into the camp, but he will not be clean until the evening.
Commentaries on Hebrews 9:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10In meats and drinks, and divers washings - He had already mentioned eucharistic and sacrificial offerings, and nothing properly remained but the different kinds of clean and unclean animals which were used, or forbidden to be used, as articles of food; together with the different kinds or drinks, washings, , baptisms, immersions, sprinklings and washings of the body and the clothes, and carnal ordinances, or things which had respect merely to the body…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Which stood only in meats and drinks - The idea is, that the ordinances of the Jews, in connection with the services of religion, consisted much of laws pertaining to what was lawful to eat and drink, etc. A considerable part of those laws related to the distinction between clean and unclean beasts, and to such arrangements as were designed to keep them externally distinct from other nations. It is possible also that there may be a reference here to meat…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-10Verses 6-10 The apostle goes on to speak of the Old Testament services. Christ, having undertaken to be our High Priest, could not enter into heaven till he had shed his blood for us; and none of us can enter, either into God's gracious presence here, or his glorious presence hereafter, but by the blood of Jesus. Sins are errors, great errors, both in judgment and practice; and who can understand all his errors? They leave guilt upon the conscience, not…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10The old system focused only on physical rules and could not address people's inner feelings (Hebrews 8:10; 10:21–24). It was temporary, meant to last until Christ came to create a better system (9:11–10:18).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Which--sacrifices. stood--consisted in [Alford]; or, "have attached to them" only things which appertain to the use of foods, &c. The rites of meats, &c., go side by side with the sacrifices [Tholuck and Wahl]; compare Col 2:16. drinks--(Le 10:9; 11:4). Usage subsequently to the law added many observances as to meats and drinks. washings--(Ex 29:4). and carnal ordinances--One oldest manuscript, Syriac and Coptic, omit "and." "Carnal ordinances" stand…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hebrews 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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