Hebrews 9:20

saying, as he did so – “This is the blood that renders valid the covenant which God has commanded to be made with you.”

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19For, when every command had been announced to all the people by Moses in accordance with the Law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats, with water, scarlet wool, and a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled even the book of the Law, as well as all the people,

21And in the same way he also sprinkled with the blood the tent and all the things that were used in public worship.

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Cross References

Zechariah 9:11And you, too – because of your blood covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Hebrews 13:20May God, the source of all peace, who brought back from the dead him who, ‘by virtue of the blood that rendered valid the unchangeable covenant, is the great shepherd of God’s Sheep,’ Jesus, our Lord –

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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