Hebrews 9:10 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

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

English ASV

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

English Amplified

For [the ceremonies] deal only with clean and unclean meats and drinks and different washings, [mere] external rules and regulations for the body imposed to tide the worshipers over until the time of setting things straight [of reformation, of the complete new order when Christ, the Messiah, shall establish the reality of what these things foreshadow--a better covenant].

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For [the ceremonies] deal only with clean and unclean meats and drinks and different washings, [mere] external rules and regulations for the body imposed to tide the worshipers over until the time of setting things straight [of reformation, of the complete new order when Christ, the Messiah, shall establish the reality of what these things foreshadow–a better covenant].

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

The old rules taught people about different kinds of food and drink. They taught about how people should wash in special ways. Those rules were about people's bodies. They had authority only until the time when God would make things new and better.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

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.

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

English GNT (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.

English God's Word - GW 1995

These gifts and sacrifices were meant to be food, drink, and items used in various purification ceremonies. These ceremonies were required for the body until God would establish a new way of doing things.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

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

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

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

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

since they are concerned only with foods and drinks, ceremonial cleansings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

but only in matters of food and drink and various ritual washings: regulations concerning the flesh, imposed until the time of the new order.

English NET Bible - 2005 (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.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

They deal only with food and drink and different kinds of special washings. They are rules that deal with things outside our bodies. People had to obey them only until the new covenant came.

English NIV

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

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

For that old system deals only with food and drink and ritual washing--external regulations that are in effect only until their limitations can be corrected.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

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

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

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.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

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

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

For the old system dealt only with certain rituals—what foods to eat and drink, rules for washing themselves, and rules about this and that. The people had to keep these rules to tide them over until Christ came with God's new and better way.

English Tyndale 1537

with meats only and drinks, and divers washings, and justifyings of the flesh, which were ordained until the time of reformation.

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