Hebrews 9:18 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁸ Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ So even the [old] first covenant (God's will) was not inaugurated and ratified and put in force without the shedding of blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ So not even the first covenant was put into effect without blood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Therefore, indeed, the first was not dedicated without blood.

Hebrews 9:18 Cross References

Exodus 12:22

And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

Leviticus 8:24

And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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.

Hebrews 9:19

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,

Hebrews 9:22

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.