Hebrews 13:10

We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Text-Critical English NT

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 carried away by various kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who follow them.

11For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 9:13Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat of the temple sacrifices, and those who attend to the altar have a share in the altar sacrifices?

1 Corinthians 10:20No, I am saying that what the pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants 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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