18This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
18This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance--now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
16 In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it,
17 because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.
18 This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
19 When Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people.
20 He said, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep."
9:18Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood.
9:18Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated 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.