17 (A)For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead: for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it, is alive.

18 [a]Wherefore, neither was the first ordained without blood.

19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to the people, [b]according to the Law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and purple wool and hyssop, and [c]sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:18 There must be a proportion between those things which purify, and those which are purified: Under the Law all those figures were earthly, the Tabernacle, the book, the vessels, the sacrifices, although they were the figures of heavenly things. Therefore it was requisite that all those should be purified with some matter and ceremony of the same nature, to wit, with the blood of beasts, with water, wool, hyssop. But under Christ all things are heavenly, an heavenly tabernacle, an heavenly sacrifice, an heavenly people, an heavenly doctrine, and heaven itself is set open before us for an eternal habitation. Therefore all these things are sanctified in like sort, to wit, with the everlasting offering of the quickening blood of Christ.
  2. Hebrews 9:19 As the Lord had commanded.
  3. Hebrews 9:19 He useth to sprinkle.

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