18Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.
18Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.
15 And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death, for the redemption of those trangressions, which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must of necessity come in.
17 For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.
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,
20 Saying: This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.
9:18Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood.
9:18This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
9:18Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood.
9:18Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.
9:18Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood.
9:18Hence even the first testament was not dedicated without blood.
9:18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
9:18whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,
9:18Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.