Hebrews 9:20

Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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,

21And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:12With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

Zechariah 9:11And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.

Hebrews 13:20Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

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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