Hebrews 9:10 They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings--external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

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Parallel Verses

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.

English Standard Version
but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed 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.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They are physical regulations and only deal with food, drink, and various washings imposed until the time of restoration.

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.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And divers washings, and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

Darby Bible Translation
consisting only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until the time of setting things right.

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

Cross References

Leviticus 11:2
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which you shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

Leviticus 11:25
And whoever bears ought of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

Numbers 6:3
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

Numbers 19:13
Whoever touches the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifies not himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

Mark 7:4
And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.

Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Hebrews 7:12
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Hebrews 7:16
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

Hebrews 9:1
Then truly the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:6-10 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 to be washed away but by the blood of Christ. We must plead this blood on earth, while he is pleading it for us in heaven. A few believers, under the Divine teaching, saw something of the way of access to God, of communion with him, and of admission into heaven through the promised Redeemer, but the Israelites in general looked no further than the outward forms. These could not take away the defilement or dominion of sin. They could neither discharge the debts, nor resolve the doubts, of him who did the service. Gospel times are, and should be, times of reformation, of clearer light as to all things needful to be known, and of greater love, causing us to bear ill-will to none, but good-will to all. We have greater freedom, both of spirit and speech, in the gospel, and greater obligations to a more holy living.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. 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 in apposition to "sacrifices" (Heb 9:9). Carnal (outward, affecting only the flesh) is opposed to spiritual. Contrast "flesh" with "conscience" (Heb 9:13, 14).

imposed—as a burden (Ac 15:10, 28) continually pressing heavy.

until the time of reformation—Greek, "the season of rectification," when the reality should supersede the type (Heb 8:8-12). Compare "better," Heb 9:23.