Hebrews 9:20

saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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,

21He sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:12that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today,

Zechariah 9:11As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Hebrews 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal 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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