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17 For a [a]covenant is valid only when [b]men are dead, [c]for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. 18 Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been (A)spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, (B)he took the (C)blood of the calves and the goats, with (D)water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both (E)the book itself and all the people,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:17 Or testament
  2. Hebrews 9:17 Lit over the dead
  3. Hebrews 9:17 Two early mss for is it then...lives?