Hebrews 13:10

We have an altar: those who serve in the tabernacle have no authority to eat from it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Do not be led away by changing or strange doctrines. And it is best for the heart to be sustained by grace, not by foods. For the latter have not been as useful to those who walked by them.

11For the bodies of those animals whose blood is carried into the Holy of holies by the high priest, on behalf of sin, are burned outside the camp.

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Cross References

Numbers 7:5“Receive these things from them, in order to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle, and you shall deliver them to the Levites, according to the order of their ministry.”

1 Corinthians 9:13Do you not know that those who work in the holy place eat the things that are for the holy place, and that those who serve at the altar also share with the altar?

1 Corinthians 10:20But the things that the Gentiles immolate, they immolate to demons, and not to God. And I do not want you to become partakers with demons.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 13:2-18

Various Duties. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee,… Read the whole commentary →

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