Hebrews 9:18

Wherefore neither was the first ordeined without blood.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead: for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it, is aliue.

19For when Moses had spoken euery precept to the people, according to the Law, he tooke the blood of calues and of goates, with water and purple wooll and hyssope, and sprinckled both the booke, and all the people,

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Cross References

Exodus 12:22And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basen, and strike the lintell, and the doore cheekes with the blood that is in the basen, and let none of you goe out at the doore of his house, vntill the morning.

Hebrews 8:7For if that first Testament had bene vnblameable, no place should haue bene sought for the second.

Hebrews 9:22And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood, and without sheading of blood 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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