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Hebrews 9:18

WEB

18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

KJV

18Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

BSB

18That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

FBV

18That's why the first agreement was established with blood.

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Extra References

Exodus 24:3-8

3Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which the LORD has spoken will we do.”

4Moses wrote all the LORD’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. 5He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to the LORD. 6Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “We will do all that the LORD has said, and be obedient.”

8Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.”


Hebrews 9:14

14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?


Hebrews 8:7-9

7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8For finding fault with them, he said, Behold,[+] the days are coming”, says the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.


Hebrews 9:22

22According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.


Exodus 12:22

22You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.