Hebrews 9:10

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Hebrews 9:6-10 The Message (MSG)

After this was set up, the priests went about their duties in the large tent. Only the high priest entered the smaller, inside tent, and then only once a year, offering a blood sacrifice for his own sins and the people’s accumulated sins. This was the Holy Spirit’s way of showing with a visible parable that as long as the large tent stands, people can’t just walk in on God. Under this system, the gifts and sacrifices can’t really get to the heart of the matter, can’t assuage the conscience of the people, but are limited to matters of ritual and behavior. It’s essentially a temporary arrangement until a complete overhaul could be made.

Hebrews 9:10 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.

Hebrews 9:10 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)

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

Hebrews 9:10 New Century Version (NCV)

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.

Hebrews 9:10 American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Hebrews 9:10 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.

Hebrews 9:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

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

Hebrews 9:10 Amplified Bible (AMP)

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].

Hebrews 9:10 New Living Translation (NLT)

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.

Hebrews 9:10 The Passion Translation (TPT)

For this old pattern of worship was a matter of external rules and rituals concerning food and drink and ceremonial washings which was imposed upon us until the appointed time of heart-restoration had arrived.

Hebrews 9:10 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)

but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.