Hebrews 9:20

saying: “This is the blood of the testament which God has commanded for you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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,

21And even the tabernacle, and all the vessels for the ministry, he similarly sprinkled with blood.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:12so that you may cross into the covenant of the Lord your God, and into the oath which the Lord your God strikes with you today.

Zechariah 9:11You, likewise, by the blood of your testimony, have sent forth your prisoners from the pit, in which there is no water.

Hebrews 13:20Then may the God of peace, who led back from the dead that great Pastor of sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, with the blood of the eternal testament,

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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