Hebrews 10:8

He first said: Sacrifices and oblations and holocausts for sins, which were offered according to the law, thou desiredst not;

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

In Context

7Then I said: Behold I come, as it is written of me in the beginning of the books, to do thy pleasure, O God.

9and afterwards he said: Behold I come to do thy pleasure, O God: hereby, he abolished the former, that he might establish the latter.

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Cross References

Hebrews 10:5Therefore, when entering the world, he said: In sacrifices and oblations, thou hast not had pleasure; but thou hast clothed me with a body.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 10:8-19

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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