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Hebrews 10:11
Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The author addresses Jewish believers familiar with temple worship, immediately after declaring Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice and before noting His seated position at God’s right hand.
The words — ἕστηκεν (hestēken) means “has stood,” and λειτουργῶν (leitourgōn) means “ministering,” both describing the continuous, standing posture of the old covenant priests during their daily service.
The thread — This pattern of daily, repetitive sacrifice appears in Numbers 28:3 as the prescribed burnt offering and is echoed in Hebrews 5:1 regarding the high priest’s appointment to offer gifts, while Hebrews 10:4 explicitly states the blood of animals cannot remove sin.
Why it lands — The text states that repeated priestly service cannot take away sins, which requires the reader to recognize the insufficiency of the old system and rest in the finality of Christ’s single offering.
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The Greek words
King James Version
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Cross-references
- Hebrews 10:4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
- Numbers 28:3 And tell them that this is the food offering you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
- Hebrews 5:1 Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
- Psalms 50:8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Isaiah 1:11 “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- Hebrews 7:27 Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.
- Hebrews 10:1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
- Daniel 8:11 It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.
- Daniel 9:21 while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
- Daniel 9:27 And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”