Hebrews 9:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ Hence not even the first covenant was inaugurated 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.

Hebrews 9:18 Cross References

Exodus 12:22

Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood in the basin. None of you shall go outside the door of your house until morning.

Leviticus 8:24

After Aaron’s sons were brought forward, Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet, and Moses dashed the rest of the blood against all sides of the altar.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

Hebrews 9:17

For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.

Hebrews 9:19

For when every commandment had been told to all the people by Moses in accordance with the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,

Hebrews 9:22

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.