Hebrews 9:18

Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

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In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

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Cross References

Exodus 12:22You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Hebrews 8:7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

Hebrews 9:22According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there 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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