Hebrews 9:18

Therefore, indeed, the first was not dedicated without blood.

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In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17For a testament is confirmed by death. Otherwise, it as yet has no force, as long as the one who testifies lives.

19For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to the entire people, he took up the blood of calves and goats, with water and with scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and the entire people,

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Cross References

Exodus 12:22And dip a little bundle of hyssop in the blood which is at the entrance, and sprinkle the upper threshold with it, and both of the door posts. Let none of you go out of the door of his house until morning.

Hebrews 8:7For if the former one had been entirely without fault, then a place certainly would not have been sought for a subsequent one.

Hebrews 9:22And nearly everything, according to the law, is to be cleansed with blood. And without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.

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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