Hebrews 9:18

for which reason, not even the first has been initiated apart from blood,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17for a covenant is affirmed at death, since it is not in force at all when the [one] having made [it] lives,

19for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,

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Cross References

Exodus 12:22and you have taken a bunch of hyssop, and have dipped [it] in the blood which [is] in the basin, and have struck [it] on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, from the blood which [is] in the basin, and you, you do not go out—each from the opening of his house—until morning.

Hebrews 8:7for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.

Hebrews 9:22and with blood almost all things are purified according to the Law, and forgiveness does not come apart from blood-shedding.

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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