Hebrews 9:20

and said to them, This is the blood of the covenant which is enjoined by God.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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;

21With that blood he also sprinkled upon the tabernacle, and upon all the vessels of ministration:

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Cross References

Hebrews 13:20May the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the flock, by the blood of the everlasting covenant, namely Jesus the Messiah, our Lord,

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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