Hebrews 10:4
For it is impossible for the dahm of parim (young bulls) and se'irim (goats) to take away chatta'im (sins).
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
In Context
3But by those zevakhim there is a zikaron (remembrance) and a reminder of averos year after year.
Cross References
Psalms 51:16Save me from damim (bloodguiltiness), 1 O Elohim, Thou Elohei Teshuati; 1 and my leshon shall sing aloud of Thy tzedakah. 1
Isaiah 66:3He that slaughtereth the bull 1 is the slayer of a man; 1 he that sacrificeth a seh, 1 is a strangler of dogs; 1 he that offereth a minchah, 1 it is dahm chazir; 1 he that burneth incense, 1 blesseth idols. 1 As they have chosen their own ways, 1 and their nefesh delighteth in their shikkutzim (abominations), 1
Jeremiah 7:21Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os, Elohei Yisroel; Add your olot unto your zevakhim, and eat basar.
Hosea 14:2O Yisroel, return unto Hashem Eloheicha; 1 for thy downfall hast been thine avon (iniquity). 1
Micah 6:6With what shall I come before Hashem, 1 and bow myself before Elohei Marom (G-d on High)? 1 Shall I come before Him with olot (burnt offerings), 1 with calves a year old? 1
John 1:29On the next day, Yochanan sees Yehoshua coming to him, and Yochanan says, Hinei! The Seh HaElohim, + 1:29 Gn 22:8; Ex 12:5-13; Isa 53:7 the one carrying away the avonot HaOlam Hazeh (sins of this world). + 1:29 i.e., as the sa'ir l'Azazel kapporah; Isa 53:6,7,12; Lv 16:22
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 10:2-7
The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of… Read the whole commentary →