Hebrews 9:18

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So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

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  • Exod 12:22 : 22 Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.
  • Exod 24:3-8 : 3 Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together,“We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,” 4 and Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones– according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD. 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar. 7 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said,“We are willing to do and obey all that the LORD has spoken.” 8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
  • Heb 8:7-9 : 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one. 8 But showing its fault, God says to them,“Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
  • Heb 9:22 : 22 Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

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  • Heb 9:19-23
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    19For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, 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,

    20and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

    21And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.

    22Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

    23So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

  • Heb 9:11-17
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    11Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

    12and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.

    13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,

    14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

    15And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

    16For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.

    17For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

  • Heb 9:6-9
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    6So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.

    7But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

    8The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

    9This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

  • Heb 9:1-3
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    1The Arrangement and Ritual of the Earthly Sanctuary Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

    2For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.

    3And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.

  • 1 Pet 1:19
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    19but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

  • Exod 24:8
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    8So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

  • Heb 10:3-4
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    3But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

    4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

  • Heb 9:25
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    25And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

  • Heb 10:19
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    19Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

  • Heb 13:11-12
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    11For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

    12Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

  • Heb 7:20
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    20And since this was not done without a sworn affirmation– for the others have become priests without a sworn affirmation,

  • Heb 8:7
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    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

  • Lev 17:11
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    11for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.

  • Heb 11:28
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    28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

  • Heb 12:24
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    24and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.

  • Lev 4:6
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    6The priest must dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD toward the front of the special curtain of the sanctuary.

  • Gen 9:4
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    4But you must not eat meat with its life(that is, its blood) in it.

  • Lev 8:19
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    19and he slaughtered it. Moses then splashed the blood against the altar’s sides.

  • Lev 16:19
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    19Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it from the impurities of the Israelites.

  • Lev 4:16-18
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    16Then the high priest must bring some of the blood of the bull to the Meeting Tent,

    17and that priest must dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the LORD toward the front of the curtain.

    18He must put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the LORD in the Meeting Tent, and all the rest of the blood he must pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.

  • Num 18:17
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    17But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

  • Lev 9:9
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    9Then Aaron’s sons presented the blood to him and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.

  • Num 19:4-5
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    4Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times directly in front of the tent of meeting.

    5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight– its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.

  • Mark 14:24
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    24He said to them,“This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many.

  • Exod 29:12
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    12and take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; all the rest of the blood you are to pour out at the base of the altar.

  • Exod 24:6
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    6Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.

  • Heb 10:9
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    9then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

  • Heb 7:22
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    22accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

  • Heb 10:1
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    1Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

  • Lev 10:18
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    18See here! Its blood was not brought into the holy place within! You should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary just as I commanded!”