New American Standard Bible 1995

Hebrews 9:16-22

16For where a 1covenant is, there must of necessity 2be the death of the one who made it. 17For a 3covenant is valid only when 4men are dead, 5for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. 18Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. 19For when every commandment had been 6spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, 7he took the 8blood of the calves and the goats, with 9water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both 10the book itself and all the people, 20saying, “11This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.” 21And in the same way he 12sprinkled both the 13tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood. 22And according to the 14Law, one may 15almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and 16without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

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Notes

1. Hebrews 9:16 Or testament ↩
2. Hebrews 9:16 Lit be brought ↩
3. Hebrews 9:17 Or testament ↩
4. Hebrews 9:17 Lit over the dead ↩
5. Hebrews 9:17 Two early mss read for is it then...lives? ↩
6. Hebrews 9:19 Heb 1:1 ↩
7. Hebrews 9:19 Ex 24:6ff ↩
8. Hebrews 9:19 Heb 9:12 ↩
9. Hebrews 9:19 Lev 14:4, 7; Num 19:6, 18 ↩
10. Hebrews 9:19 Ex 24:7 ↩
11. Hebrews 9:20 Ex 24:8; Matt 26:28 ↩
12. Hebrews 9:21 Ex 24:6; 40:9; Lev 8:15, 19; 16:14-16 ↩
13. Hebrews 9:21 Or sacred tent ↩
14. Hebrews 9:22 Or Law, almost all things ↩
15. Hebrews 9:22 Lev 5:11f ↩
16. Hebrews 9:22 Lev 17:11 ↩

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