Hebrews 9:1

And the former testament had justifyings of worship (or And the former covenant had rules for worship), and holy thing (s) (en)during for a time.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

In Context

2For the tabernacle was made first, in which were candlesticks, and [a] board (or a table), and (the) setting forth [or (the) putting forth] of loaves, which is said holy.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:8And they shall make a saintuary to me, and I shall dwell in the midst of them, (And they shall make a sanctuary for me, and I shall live there in their midst,)

Leviticus 18:30Keep ye my behests; do not ye do those things, which they that were before you did, and be ye not defouled in those; I am your Lord God. (Obey ye my commands; do not ye do those things, which they who were before you did, and be ye not defiled with them; I am the Lord your God.)

Numbers 9:12They shall not leave anything thereof till to the morrowtide, and they shall not break a bone thereof; they shall keep all the custom of pask (or they shall follow all the customs, or all the rites, of the Passover).

Luke 1:6And both were just before God (or And both were good and righteous before God), going in all the commandments and justifyings of the Lord, without (com)plaint.

Hebrews 8:2the minister of (the) saints, and of the very tabernacle, that God made [or set], and not man. (the minister of God’s people, and of the true Tabernacle, or the true Tent, that God made, or pitched, and not man.)

Hebrews 8:13But in saying a new (testament) the former (testament) waxed old; and that that is of many days, and waxeth old, is nigh the death. (But in proclaiming a new covenant, the former covenant hath grown old; and that which is of many days, and groweth old, is nearly dead, or shall soon die.)

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 9:1

The apostle, having declared the Old-Testament dispensation antiquated and vanishing away, proceeds to let the Hebrews see the correspondence there was between the Old Testament and the New; and that whatever was excellent in the Old was typical and representative of the New, which therefore must as far excel the Old as the substance does the shadow. The Old Testament was never intended to be rested in, but to prepare for the institutions of the gospel. And here he treats, I. Of the tabernacle, the place of… Read the whole commentary →

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