Hebrews 9:20

saying, “This [is] the blood of the covenant that God enjoined to you,”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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,

21and he sprinkled both the Dwelling Place and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:12for your passing over into the covenant of your God YHWH, and into His oath which your God YHWH is making with you today,

Zechariah 9:11Also You—by the blood of Your covenant, || I have sent Your prisoners out of the pit, || There is no water in it.

Hebrews 13:20And the God of peace, who brought up the Great Shepherd of the sheep out of the dead—by the blood of a perpetual covenant—our Lord Jesus,

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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