Hebrews 9:18

For which cause also nether that fyrst testament was ordeyned with out bloud.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17For the testament taketh auctoritie when men are deed: For it is of no value as longe as he that made it is a live.

19For when all the commaundementes were redde of Moses vnto all the people he toke the bloud of calves and of Gotes with water and purple woll and ysope and sprynkled both the boke and all the people

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Cross References

Hebrews 8:7For yf that fyrst testament had bene fautelesse: then shuld no place have bene sought for the seconde.

Hebrews 9:22And almost all thynges are bye the lawe pourged with bloud and with out effusion of bloud is no remission.

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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