Hebrews 9:10

New Living Translation

For that old system deals only with food and drink and various cleansing ceremonies—physical regulations that were in effect only until a better system could be established.

Parallel Translations

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

King James Version (1611)
Which stood onely in meates and drinkes, and diuers washings, and carnall ordinances imposed on them vntill the time of reformation.

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

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, drink, and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

New Century Version
These gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. They were rules for the body, to be followed until the time of God's new way.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

Legacy Standard Bible
since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, requirements for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

Berean Standard Bible
They consist only in food and drink and special washings-external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

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.

Complete Jewish Bible
For they involve only food and drink and various ceremonial washings — regulations concerning the outward life, imposed until the time for God to reshape the whole structure.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
These gifts and sacrifices are only about food and drink and special washings. They are only rules about the body. God gave them for his people to follow until the time of his new way.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Which only stood in meates and drinkes, and diuers washings, and carnal rites, which were inioyned, vntill the time of reformation.

George Lamsa Translation
But which served only for food and drink, and in divers ablutions, which are ordinances of the flesh and which were imposed until the time of reformation.

Good News Translation
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.

Lexham English Bible
concerning instead only food and drink and different washings, regulations of outward things imposed until the time of setting things right.

Literal Translation
but only on foods and drinks, and various washings, and fleshly ordinances, until the time of setting things right has been imposed.

Amplified Bible
For they [the gifts, sacrifices, and ceremonies] deal only with [clean and unclean] food and drink and various ritual washings, [mere] external regulations for the body imposed [to help the worshipers] until the time of reformation [that is, the time of the new order when Christ will establish the reality of what these things foreshadow—a better covenant].

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

Bible in Basic English
Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

Hebrew Names Version
being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

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.Leviticus 11:2; Numbers 19:7; Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:16,20; Hebrews 7:16;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
but (have consisted) in meat and drink only, and in various kinds of baptism, being institutions of the flesh appointed until the time of setting right.

Murdock Translation
but [fn] only in food and drink, and in the ablutions of divers things; which were carnal ordinances, and were set up until the time of a reformation.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
With only meates and drynkes, and diuers wasshynges, and iustifiynges of the flesshe, which were layde vp vntyll the tyme of reformation.

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

World English Bible
being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Only with meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation.

Weymouth's New Testament
For their efficacy depends only on meats and drinks and various washings, ceremonies pertaining to the body and imposed until a time of reformation.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and drynkis, and dyuerse waischingis, and riytwisnessis of fleisch, that weren sett to the tyme of correccioun.

Update Bible Version
[being] only (with meats and drinks and diverse washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Webster's Bible Translation
[Which stood] only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed [on them] until the time of reformation.

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

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

New Life Bible
The Old Way of Worship was made up of Laws about what to eat and drink. These Laws told how to wash and other things to do with the body. These things had to be done until Christ came to bring a better way of worship.

New Revised Standard
but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Only as to eatings, and drinkings, and diversified immersions, - righteous-appointments of the flesh, which, until a season of rectifying, are in force.

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

Revised Standard Version
but deal only with food and drink and various ablutions, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
with only meates and drinkes and divers wesshynges and iustifyinges of the flesshe which were ordeyned vntyll the tyme of reformacion.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
onely with meates and drynkes, and dyuerse wasshinges, and iustifienges of the flesh, which were ordeyned vnto the tyme of reformacion.

Mace New Testament (1729)
only in matters relating to meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, meer external rites which were to subsist only till the time of reformation.

Simplified Cowboy Version
These things were just used in various religious ceremonies for purification and stuff. God chose this way until his true plan was set into action.

Contextual Overview

⁸ By these regulations the Holy Spirit revealed that the entrance to the Most Holy Place was not freely open as long as the Tabernacle and the system it represented were still in use. ⁹ This is an illustration pointing to the present time. For the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of the people who bring them. ¹⁰ For that old system deals only with food and drink and various cleansing ceremonies—physical regulations that were in effect only until a better system could be established. ¹¹ So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world. ¹² With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever. ¹³ Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people's bodies from ceremonial impurity. ¹⁴ Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in meats: Hebrews 13:9, Leviticus 11:2-47, Deuteronomy 14:3-21, Ezekiel 4:14, Acts 10:13-15, Colossians 2:16

divers: Hebrews 6:2,*Gr: Hebrews 10:22, Exodus 29:4, Exodus 30:19-21, Exodus 40:12, Leviticus 14:8, Leviticus 14:9, Leviticus 16:4, Leviticus 16:24, Leviticus 17:15, Leviticus 17:16, Leviticus 22:6, Numbers 19:7-21, Deuteronomy 21:6, Deuteronomy 23:11

carnal: Hebrews 9:1, Hebrews 7:16, Galatians 4:3, Galatians 4:9, Ephesians 2:15, Colossians 2:20-22

ordinances: or, rites, or, ceremonies

until: Hebrews 2:5, Hebrews 6:5, Galatians 4:4, Ephesians 1:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 38:8 - the laver Leviticus 6:28 - General Leviticus 8:6 - washed Leviticus 11:8 - they are unclean Leviticus 11:25 - and be unclean Leviticus 13:6 - wash Leviticus 13:58 - be washed Numbers 8:7 - Sprinkle Numbers 19:2 - the ordinance Numbers 19:21 - General 1 Kings 7:38 - ten lavers Psalms 50:5 - made Ezekiel 16:9 - washed Zechariah 9:11 - by the blood of thy covenant Matthew 3:6 - were Mark 7:4 - except Mark 7:15 - nothing John 2:6 - after John 3:25 - about John 3:31 - he that is John 13:10 - He Acts 10:15 - What Acts 13:39 - from which Acts 21:24 - and purify Romans 8:34 - It is Christ Romans 9:4 - the service Romans 14:2 - that 2 Corinthians 1:20 - all Galatians 2:14 - the truth Galatians 3:3 - having Colossians 2:14 - the handwriting 1 Timothy 4:8 - little Hebrews 7:18 - the weakness Hebrews 8:13 - he hath Hebrews 9:23 - the patterns Hebrews 10:14 - he

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.

Genesis 9:5
"And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person's life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die.

Genesis 9:6
If anyone takes a human life, that person's life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings in his own image.

Genesis 9:15
and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life.

Genesis 9:16
When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth."

Psalms 145:9
The Lord is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all his creation.

Jonah 4:11
But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people living in spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals. Shouldn't I feel sorry for such a great city?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Which stood] only in meats and drinks,.... That is, along with the gifts and sacrifices offered, there only were meat offerings and drink offerings; things which only respect the body, and cannot therefore make perfect, as to the conscience; to which may be added, that while the tabernacle was standing, and typical service was in being, there was a prohibition of certain meats, as unclean, and an allowance of others, as clean, Leviticus 11:2 and there were certain drinks which were unlawful to certain persons, at certain times, as to the priests and Nazarites, Leviticus 10:9 and which, for the above reason, could make no man perfect:

and divers washings or "baptisms": the doctrine of which, the apostle would not have laid again, Hebrews 6:2 these were the washings of the priests and of the Israelites, and of sacrifices, and of garments, and of vessels and other things; and which, because they were performed by immersion, they are called "baptisms": and now since these only sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, or what was outward, they could not reach the conscience, or make perfect with respect to that: and

carnal ordinances: which belonged to the flesh, and not the spirit or soul, and therefore could not affect that; besides, these were only

imposed on them until the time of reformation; they were enjoined the Jews only, though by God himself; and were put upon them as a burden, or a yoke, and which was on some accounts intolerable, but were not to continue any longer than the time of the Gospel, here called "the time of reformation", or of "correction", and emendation; in which, things that were faulty and deficient are amended and perfected, and in which burdensome rites and ceremonies are removed, and better ordinances introduced: or rather of direction: in which saints are directed to Christ, the sum and substance of all types, shadows, and sacrifices, and in whom alone perfection is.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which 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 and drink offerings. On the grammatical difficulties of this verse, see Stuart on the Hebrews, in loc.

And divers washings - The various ablutions which were required in the service of the tabernacle and the temple - washing of the hands, of the victim that was to be offered, etc. It was for this purpose that the laver was erected in front of the tabernacle Exodus 30:18; Exodus 31:9; Exodus 35:16, and that the brass sea and the lavers were constructed in connection with the temple of Solomon; 2 Chronicles 4:2-5; 1 Kings 7:26. The Greek word here is “baptisms.” On its meaning, see Matthew 3:6 note; Mark 7:4 note.

And carnal ordinances - Margin, “Or, rites, or ceremonies.” Greek “Ordinances of the flesh;” that is, which pertained to the flesh or to external ceremonies. The object was rather to keep them “externally” pure than to cleanse the conscience and make them holy in heart.

Imposed on them - “Laid on them” - ἐπικέιμενα epikeimena. It does not mean that there was any “oppression” or “injustice” in regard to these ordinances, but that they were appointed for a temporary purpose.

Until the time of reformation - The word rendered here “reformation” - διόρθωσις diorthōsis - means properly “emendation, improvement, reform.” It refers to putting a thing in a right condition; making it better; or raising up and restoring what is fallen down. Passow. Here the reference is undoubtedly to the gospel as being a better system - “a putting things where they ought to be;” compare notes on Acts 3:21. The idea here is, that those ordinances were only temporary in their nature, and were designed to endure until a more perfect system should be introduced. They were of value “to introduce” that better system; they were not adapted to purify the conscience and remove the stains of guilt from the soul.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 9:10. In 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, βαπτισμοις, baptisms, immersions, sprinklings and washings of the body and the clothes, and carnal ordinances, or things which had respect merely to the body, and could have no moral influence upon the soul, unless considered in reference to that of which they were the similitudes, or figures.

Carnal ordinances — δικαιωματα σαρκος. Rites and ceremonies pertaining merely to the body. The word carnal is not used here, nor scarcely in any part of the New Testament, in that catachrestical or degrading sense in which many preachers and professors of Christianity take the liberty to use it.

Imposed on them until the time of reformation.] These rites and ceremonies were enacted, by Divine authority, as proper representations of the Gospel system, which should reform and rectify all things.

The time of reformation, καιρος διορθωσεως, the time of rectifying, signifies the Gospel dispensation, under which every thing is set straight; every thing referred to its proper purpose and end; the ceremonial law fulfilled and abrogated; the moral law exhibited and more strictly enjoined; (see our Lord's sermon upon the mount;) and the spiritual nature of God's worship taught, and grace promised to purify the heart: so that, through the power of the eternal Spirit, all that was wrong in the soul is rectified; the affections, passions, and appetites purified; the understanding enlightened; the judgment corrected; the will refined; in a word, all things made new.