Hebrews 9:20

saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God made for you.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

In Context

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,

21And likewise he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:12that thou may enter into the covenant of LORD thy God, and into his oath, which LORD thy God makes with thee this day,

Zechariah 9:11As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Hebrews 13:20Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant--our Lord Jesus--

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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