Hebrews 9:18

Therefore also the first covenant was not confirmed without blood.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17For it is valid, only of a deceased person; because it hath no use, so long as the maker of it liveth.

19For when the whole ordinance had been propounded by Moses to all the people, according to the law; Moses took the blood of a heifer, and water, with scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled upon the books and upon all the people;

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Cross References

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

Hebrews 9:22because every thing, according to the law, is purified with blood: and without the 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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