Hebrews 9:20

Saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you to keep.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

21In the same way, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels used in the ministry.

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Cross References

Hebrews 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant,

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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