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Hebrews 9:19

First Nations Version

Drawn from the Water (Moses) told the people all that our tribal law required them to do. Then he used red wool and a hyssop branch to sprinkle the book of the law and the people with water and the blood of bulls and goats.

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He did not go in with the blood of goats and calves but with his own lifeblood. In doing so, he paid the highest price to set us free and make us whole for all time.


For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away bad hearts and broken ways.


Our Father the Great Spirit knew long ago that he would take you into his family. By his Spirit he is making you holy so you will obey Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One and be sprinkled with his lifeblood. May the gift of his great kindness and peace overflow to you.


He was wearing the headdress of thorns and the purple chief blanket that was wrapped around him. “Behold the man!” Spear of the Great Waters (Pilate) said to them.


The soldiers twisted together a headdress from a thorn bush, pressed the thorns into his head, and wrapped a purple chief blanket around him.


When they were finished putting on their big show, they stripped him of the purple chief blanket and dressed him in his own clothes. The soldiers forced Creator Sets Free (Jesus) to carry a heavy wooden crossbeam on his back. He stumbled under the weight, because he was weak from the beating he had endured, too weak to bear the burden. But they continued to march him down the road to the place where they would nail him to the cross.


They wrapped a purple chief blanket around him and twisted together a headdress from a thorn bush and pressed it onto his head.


They stripped off his clothes, wrapped a fancy purple-and-red chief blanket around him,


Yes, you have come to Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the peacemaker of the new peace treaty between the Great Spirit and human beings. You have come to the blood that has been sprinkled, which says better things than the blood of His Breath Goes Up (Abel).


Long ago, in many ways and at many times, the Great Spirit spoke to our tribal ancestors through the prophets.


If the blood of goats and young bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean can purify our bodies,


This is why even the first peace treaty required blood to be shed.


let us draw near with honest hearts, trusting fully in what the Chosen One has done. For our hearts have been washed clean from guilt and shame and our bodies washed with pure water.





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