'Ordinances' in the Bible
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?
having abolished in the flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man,'so making peace;
having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
Now even a first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world.
being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.