Hebrews 9:18

Wherefore also that first testament was not consecrated without blood.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17For a testament is valid when men are dead; for else it is of no efficacy whilst the testator is alive.

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

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Cross References

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

Hebrews 9:22And almost all things are purified by blood according to the law, and without effusion of blood there is no remission of sin.

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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