Hebrews 9:18 - Tree of Life Version

That is why not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.

Hebrews 9:18 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 12:22

You are to take a bundle of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply it to the crossbeam and two doorposts with the blood from the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning.

Leviticus 8:24

Then Moses brought Aaron’s sons and put some of the blood on the tips of their right ears, on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet. Then Moses splashed the blood around on the altar.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Messiah—who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God—cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 9:17

For a covenant is secured upon the basis of dead bodies, since it has no strength as long as the one who made it lives.

Hebrews 9:19

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Torah, he took the blood of the calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

Hebrews 9:22

And nearly everything is purified in blood according to the Torah, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.