Hebrews 9:18

Accordingly we find that not without blood was the first testament enacted.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.

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

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Cross References

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

Hebrews 9:22almost everything is purified by blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.

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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