⁹ Don’t get carried away by all kinds of unfamiliar teachings. Gaining inner strength from God’s kindness ^[a] is good for us. This strength does not come from following rules about food, rules that don’t help those who follow them. ¹⁰ Those who serve at the tent have no right to eat what is sacrificed at our altar.

¹¹ The chief priest brings the blood of animals into the holy place as an offering for sin. But the bodies of those animals were burned outside the Israelite camp.