Hebrews 13:10 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 13:10

We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle.

KJV

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

We have an altar - The altar is here put for the sacrifice on the altar; the Christian altar is the Christian sacrifice, which is Christ Jesus, with all the benefits of his passion and death. To these privileges they had no right who continued to offer the Levitical sacrifices, and to trust in them for remission of sins.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Observe, ( a. ) The Christian church has its altar. It was objected against the primitive Christians that their assemblies were destitute of an altar; but this was not true. We have an alter, not a material altar, but a personal one, and that is Christ; he is both our altar, and our sacrifice; he sanctifies the gift.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Our meat, which we by faith spiritually eat, is the flesh of Christ, in contrast to the typical ceremonial meats. The two cannot be combined (Ga 5:2). That not a literal eating of the sacrifice of Christ is meant in the Lord's Supper, but a spiritual is meant, appears from comparing Heb 13:9 with Heb 13:10, "with GRACE, NOT with MEATS." 11, 12.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἔχομεν	echomen	We have	G2192 →
θυσιαστήριον	thusiastērion	an altar	G2379 →
ἐξ	ex	from	G1537 →
οὗ	hou	which	G3739 →
φαγεῖν	phagein	to eat	G5315 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔχουσιν	echousin	they have	G2192 →
ἐξουσίαν	exousian	authority	G1849 →
οἱ	hoi	those	G3588 →
τῇ	tēa	in the	G3588 →
σκηνῇ	skēnēa	tabernacle	G4633 →
λατρεύοντες.	latreuontes	serving.	G3000 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 10:20
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.
leads to
- Revelation 9:20
  Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze,…
- Psalms 106:37–39
  They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- Deuteronomy 32:16–17
  They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
  The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
- Leviticus 17:7
  They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’
Through
1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?
leads to
- Numbers 18:8–20
  Then the LORD said to Aaron, “Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and your sons…
- Numbers 5:9–10
  Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.
- Leviticus 6:26
  The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

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