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Do not be carried-away[a] by various[b] and strange[c] teachings. For it is good for the heart to be established[d] by grace, not by foods in-connection-with[e] which the ones walking were not profited.

We Have a Spiritual Altar. Let Us Go Out And Offer Sacrifices of Praise

10 We have an altar[f] from which the ones serving[g] in the tabernacle have no right[h] to eat. 11 For of animals from which the blood is brought into the Holies by the high priest for sin— the bodies of these are burned-up[i] outside of the camp.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 13:9 Or, taken-away.
  2. Hebrews 13:9 Or, diverse. Or, intricate, riddling, ambiguous.
  3. Hebrews 13:9 Or, foreign.
  4. Hebrews 13:9 Or, strengthened, confirmed.
  5. Hebrews 13:9 Or, by-means-of.
  6. Hebrews 13:10 That is, a spiritual altar.
  7. Hebrews 13:10 That is, Jewish priests.
  8. Hebrews 13:10 The reason this is the case is explained in v 11-12.
  9. Hebrews 13:11 No one had the right to eat any of the sacrifice made on the Day of Atonement.

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings.(A) It is good for our hearts to be strengthened(B) by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods,(C) which is of no benefit to those who do so.(D) 10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle(E) have no right to eat.(F)

11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering,(G) but the bodies are burned outside the camp.(H)

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