KJV King James Version
Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
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Hebrews 9:20
Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”
WEB World English Bible
saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”
ASV American Standard Version
saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
saying, ‘This is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,’
Surrounding context — Hebrews 9
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 [testament] was dedicated without blood.
19 For 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,
20 Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 [It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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Exodus 24:8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.Matthew 26:28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.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,Deuteronomy 29:12That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:Zechariah 9:11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water.Joshua 9:6And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
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