Hebrews 9:18
Good News Translation
That is why even the first covenant went into effect only with the use of blood.

New Revised Standard Version
Hence not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.

Contemporary English Version
Blood was also used to put the first agreement into effect.

New American Bible
Thus not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.

the first.

Hebrews 8:7-9 For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place have been sought for a second. . . .

Exodus 12:22 And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and sprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.

Exodus 24:3-8 So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken. . . .

dedicated.

Hebrews 9:14,22 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? . . .

Context
Redemption through His Blood
17For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth. 18Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood. 19For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.…
Cross References
Exodus 24:6
Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the altar.

Leviticus 8:24
He offered also the sons of Aaron: and when with the blood of the ram that was immolated, he had touched the tip of the right ear of every one of them, and the thumbs of their right hands, and the great toes of their right feet, the rest he poured on the altar round about.

Hebrews 9:17
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.

Hebrews 9:19
For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

Hebrews 9:17
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