Hebrews 9:20

Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God has commanded with authority unto you.

Updated King James Version

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 precept 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,

21Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:12That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day:

Zechariah 9:11As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

Hebrews 13:20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting 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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