Hebrews 9:20

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

21The tabernacle also and all the vessels of the ministry, in like manner, he sprinkled with blood.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:12That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.

Zechariah 9:11Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.

Hebrews 13:20And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting 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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