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  • Hebrews 9:1
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 9 For its part, the former covenant used to have legal requirements for sacred service and its holy place+ on earth.

  • Hebrews 9:1
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 9 Εἶχε Was having μὲν indeed οὖν therefore καὶ also ἡ the πρώτη first δικαιώματα righteous requirements λατρείας of sacred service τό the τε and ἅγιον holy [place] κοσμικόν. worldly.

  • Hebrews 9:1
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 9 For its part, then, the former [covenant] used to have ordinances of sacred service*+ and [its] mundane* holy place.+

  • Hebrews 9:1
    The Bible in Living English
    • 9** So the first one did have ordinances of service and its sanctuary of a mundane sort.

  • Hebrews 9:1
    American Standard Version
    • 9 Now even a first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world.

  • Hebrews 9:1
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 9 [Even] the first indeed therefore used to have righteous appointments of divine service, Even the holy ritual well arranged.

  • Hebrews 9:1
    King James Version
    • 9 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

  • Hebrews
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026
    • 9:1 it-2 1208

  • Hebrews
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 9:1 w83 9/1 31; w80 8/15 21-22

  • Hebrews
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 9:1

      Insight, Volume 2, pp. 1208-1209

  • Hebrews Study Notes—Chapter 9
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 9:1

      used to have legal requirements: At Heb 9:1-10, Paul mentions a number of features of the tabernacle and of the worship performed there, especially on the Day of Atonement. The term “legal requirements” refers to regulations for worship that the Israelites had to observe under “the former covenant.”​—See study note on Heb 8:13.

      sacred service: See study note on Ro 9:4 and Glossary.

      its holy place on earth: This expression refers to the literal tabernacle, which was a feature of the old covenant. The Greek word rendered “on earth” (ko·smi·kosʹ, related to koʹsmos, “world”) also indicates the idea of “earthly.” (See Glossary, “World.”) That tabernacle was earthly in the sense that it was part of the human realm, something built and used in the world of mankind; it was not heavenly or of the spirit realm.​—Heb 9:11; compare Joh 4:21-24.

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