Hebrews 9:10 - Forerunner Commentary

Hebrews 9:10

8 the Holy Spirit indicating this, that ^athe way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.

9 It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered ^awhich cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience—

10 concerned only with ^afoods and drinks, ^bvarious washings, ^cand fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

The Heavenly Sanctuary

11 But Christ came as High Priest of ^athe good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

12 Not ^awith the blood of goats and calves, but ^bwith His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place ^conce for all, ^dhaving obtained eternal redemption.

13 For if ^athe blood of bulls and goats and ^bthe ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean,¹ sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,

14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without¹ spot to God, ^acleanse your conscience from ^bdead works ^cto serve the living God?

15 And for this reason ^aHe is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that ^bthose who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

The Mediator’s Death Necessary

16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

Verse Comparison: Hebrews 9:10

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American Standard Version
`being' only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Amplified® Bible
For [the ceremonies] deal only with clean and unclean meats and drinks and different washings, [mere] external rules {and} regulations for the body imposed to tide the worshipers over until the time of setting things straight [of reformation, of the complete new order when Christ, the Messiah, shall establish the reality of what these things foreshadow--a better covenant].

Contemporary English Version
These rules are merely about such things as eating and drinking and ceremonies for washing ourselves. And rules about physical things will last only until the time comes to change them for something better.

Darby English Version
[consisting] only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until [the] time of setting things right.

Good News Bible
since they have to do only with food, drink, and various purification ceremonies. These are all outward rules, which apply only until the time when God will establish the new order.

International Standard Version
since they deal only with food, drink, and various washings, which are required for the body until the time when things would be set right.

King James Version
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

New American Standard Bible
since they {relate} only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

New International Version
They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

New King James Version
concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

Young's Literal Translation
only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon `them'.

New English Translation
They served only for matters of food and drink¹ and various washings; they are external regulations² imposed until the new order came.³

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