Hebrews 9:18

Accordingly we find that the first Covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

In Context

17And a will is only of force in the case of a deceased person, being never of any avail so long as he who made it lives.

19For when Moses had proclaimed to all the people every commandment contained in the Law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats and with them water, scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

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Cross References

Hebrews 8:7For if that first Covenant had been free from imperfection, there would have been no attempt to introduce another.

Hebrews 9:22Indeed we may almost say that in obedience to the Law everything is sprinkled with blood, and that apart from the outpouring 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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