Hebrews 9:18

Whereupon neither has the first been dedicated without blood.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17For a covenant is effective with the dead, since it is never enforced while the man who made the covenant lives.

19For of every commandment according to law that was spoken by Moses to all the people, after taking the blood of the calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

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Cross References

Exodus 12:22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin, and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the mo

Hebrews 8:7For if that first one was faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.

Hebrews 9:22And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood, and remission does not occur without bloodshed.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 9:16-23

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first… Read the whole commentary →

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