18Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood.


In Context

15 And 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.

16 For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him that made it.

17 For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.

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

19 For 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,

20 saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward.

Hebrews 9:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:18Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:18This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:18Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:18Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18Hence even the first testament was not dedicated without blood.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:18whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:18Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.