Hebrews 10:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

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  • Heb 10:11 : 11 Every priest indeed stands day by day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 How shall I come before Yahweh, And bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old? 7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, To love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Rom 11:27 : 27 This is my covenant to them, When I will take away their sins."
  • Heb 9:9 : 9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;
  • Heb 9:12-13 : 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
  • Heb 10:8 : 8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),
  • Mark 12:33 : 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
  • John 1:29 : 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
  • Ps 51:16 : 16 For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs, Or of male goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, Who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts; They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
  • Jer 7:21-22 : 21 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat you flesh. 22 For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, And accept that which is good: So we offer like bulls our lips.
  • Amos 5:21-22 : 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, And I can't stand your solemn assemblies. 22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; Neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. 9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens. 10 For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, For the world is mine, and all that is in it.

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  • Heb 10:1-3
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    1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

    2Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

    3But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.

  • Heb 9:12-14
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    12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

    13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

    14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

  • Heb 10:10-11
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    10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

    11Every priest indeed stands day by day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

  • Heb 10:18
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    18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

  • Heb 10:5-6
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    5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, But a body did you prepare for me;

    6In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure.

  • Heb 9:25-26
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    25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

    26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

  • Heb 13:10-11
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    10We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

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

  • Heb 10:8
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    8Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),

  • Lev 1:10
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    10"'If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep, or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without blemish.

  • Heb 9:9
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    9which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;

  • Lev 4:19-20
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    19All its fat he shall take from it, and burn it on the altar.

    20Thus shall he do with the bull; as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.

  • Lev 4:24
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    24He shall lay his hand on the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. It is a sin offering.

  • Num 28:30
    74%

    30one male goat, to make atonement for you.

  • Num 28:22
    73%

    22and one male goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.

  • Heb 9:18
    73%

    18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

  • Heb 9:22-23
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    22According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

    23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

  • Heb 7:27
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    27who doesn't need, like those high priests, to daily offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

  • Num 29:5
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    5and one male goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you;

  • Num 29:11
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    11one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings.

  • Num 29:19
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    19and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings.

  • Ezek 43:25
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    25Seven days shall you prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

  • Num 29:34
    72%

    34and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.

  • Num 29:22
    72%

    22and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.

  • Lev 9:3
    72%

    3You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 29:31
    72%

    31and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offerings of it.

  • Ezek 43:21
    72%

    21You shall also take the bull of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.

  • Num 18:17
    72%

    17But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to Yahweh.

  • Num 29:28
    71%

    28and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.

  • Heb 8:4
    71%

    4For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

  • Num 29:25
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    25and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.

  • Num 7:40
    71%

    40one male goat for a sin offering;

  • Lev 4:30
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    30The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

  • Lev 17:11
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    11For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

  • Num 7:46
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    46one male goat for a sin offering;

  • Deut 14:4
    71%

    4These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

  • Num 29:38
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    38and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.

  • Lev 16:15
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    15"Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:

  • Heb 10:14
    71%

    14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

  • Num 7:28
    71%

    28one male goat for a sin offering;

  • Heb 9:7
    71%

    7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.