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Hebrews 10:4

SinThe cross and atonement

2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

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BSB
because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
KJV
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
WEB
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
ASV
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
DARBY
For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.
BLB
For [it is] impossible [for] the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins.
ÅB
for det er umulig at blod av okser og bukker kan bortta synder.
OTB
For blodet av okser og geiter kan ikke fjerne synder.
B1930
for det er umulig at blod av okser og bukker kan bortta synder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Hebrews 10:11

    And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

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  • Isaiah 1:11–15

    To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

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  • Micah 6:6–8

    Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

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  • Romans 11:27

    For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

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  • 1 John 3:5

    And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

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  • Mark 12:33

    And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

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  • Hebrews 10:8

    Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

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  • Psalms 51:16

    For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

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