Hebrews 9:20

This is the blood of the covenant, which God enjoined in respect to you.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying:

21And moreover, the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the service, he in like manner sprinkled with blood.

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Cross References

Hebrews 13:20Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant,

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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