Hebrews 9:10

The old regulations dealt only with outward matters, food, drink, and washings, imposed until God's appointed time of reform. They were temporary by design.

Cross-references · 29

• Col 2:16Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
• Eph 2:15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;
• Lev 11:2–47“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
• Heb 7:16who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
• Heb 9:1Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.
• Deut 23:11but it shall be, when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water. When the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
• Gal 4:3–4So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
• Exod 40:12“You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
• Lev 16:4He shall put on the holy linen coat. He shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.
• Exod 30:19–21Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.
• Heb 10:22let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
• Eph 1:10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
• Ezek 4:14Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable meat into my mouth!”
• Lev 16:24Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
• Deut 21:6All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
• Heb 2:5For he didn’t subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.
• Heb 6:5and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
• Acts 10:13–15A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”
• Mark 7:4They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
• Heb 6:2of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• Num 19:7–21Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the evening.
• Lev 17:15–16“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.
• Lev 22:6the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.
• Gal 4:9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
• Col 2:20–22If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
• Exod 29:4You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
• Deut 14:3–21You shall not eat any abominable thing.
• Lev 14:8–9“He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.

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