'Ordinances' in the Bible
And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace;
having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?
The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one.
consisting only of meats and drinks and divers washings, ordinances of flesh, imposed until the time of setting things right.