Hebrews 9:18

So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?

19For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,

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Cross References

Exodus 12:22And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning.

Hebrews 8:7For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

Hebrews 9:22And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

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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