KJV King James Version
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
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Hebrews 13:10
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
WEB World English Bible
We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
ASV American Standard Version
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
we have an altar, of which to eat they have no authority who the tabernacle are serving,
Surrounding context — Hebrews 13
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἔχομενG2192 · echōto have/beθυσιαστήριονG2379 · thusiastērionaltarἐξG1537 · ekout fromοὗG3739 · hos, hēwhichφαγεῖνG5315 · phageinto eatοὐκG3756 · ounoἔχουσινG2192 · echōto have/beἐξουσίανG1849 · exousiaauthorityοἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoτῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoσκηνῇG4633 · skēnētentλατρεύοντες.G3000 · latreuōto minister
Cross-references
1 Corinthians 5:7-8Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:1 Corinthians 10:20But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.1 Corinthians 9:13Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live [of the things] of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?Numbers 7:5Take [it] of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.1 Corinthians 10:17-18For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.Numbers 3:7-8And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.
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