Hebrews 9:18
Wherefore even the first [covenant] hath not been dedicated without blood.
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- Exod 12:22 : 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 of the door of his house until the morning.
- Exod 24:3-8 : 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the ordinances: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Jehovah hath spoken will we do. 4 And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto Jehovah. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that Jehovah hath spoken will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words.
- Heb 8:7-9 : 7 For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
- Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Heb 9:22 : 22 And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
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- Heb 9:19-235 verses84%
19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward.
21Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood.
22And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- Heb 9:11-177 verses78%
11But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.
13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh:
14how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him that made it.
17For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.
- Heb 9:6-94 verses76%
6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;
7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;
9which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,
- Heb 9:1-33 verses75%
1Now even a first [covenant] had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, [a sanctuary] of this world.
2For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein [were] the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place.
3And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies;
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19but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, [even the blood] of Christ:
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8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words.
- Heb 10:3-42 verses73%
3But in those [sacrifices] there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.
4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
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25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;
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19Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
- Heb 13:11-122 verses72%
11For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest [as an offering] for sin, are burned without the camp.
12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.
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20And inasmuch as [it is] not without the taking of an oath
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7For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.
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11For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.
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28By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
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24and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.
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6and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah, before the veil of the sanctuary.
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4But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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19And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
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19And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel.
- Lev 4:16-183 verses71%
16And the anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bullock to the tent of meeting:
17and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, before the veil.
18And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before Jehovah, that is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.
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17But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
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9And the sons of Aaron presented the blood unto him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:
- Num 19:4-52 verses70%
4and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
5And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:
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24And he said unto them, This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
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12And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger; and thou shalt pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
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6And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
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9then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
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22by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
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1For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
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18Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary within: ye should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.