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Exodus 24:8

Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Atonement;   Blood;   Covenant;   Purification;   Quotations and Allusions;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Scofield Reference Index - Inspiration;   Thompson Chain Reference - Blood;   Sprinkled, Blood;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Atonement, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Jews, the;   Purifications or Baptisms;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Tabernacle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Israel;   Law;   Leviticus;   Lord's supper;   Mediator;   Moses;   Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Hospitality;   Immorality, Sexual;   Leviticus, Theology of;   Moses;   New Covenant;   Offerings and Sacrifices;   Priest, Priesthood;   Promise;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Baptism, Christian;   Blood;   Purification;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Priest;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Covenant;   Exodus, Book of;   Hyssop;   Word;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Ethics;   Exodus;   Leviticus;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement;   Atonement (2);   Blood;   Covenant;   Cup ;   Israel, Israelite;   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Mediator;   Moses ;   Passover (Ii. in Relation to Lord's Supper).;   Sacrifice;   Testament (2);   Type;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Abram;   Events of the Encampment;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   Moses, the Man of God;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, in the Old Testament;   Covenant, the Book of the;   Covenant, the New;   Exodus, the Book of;   Genesis;   Law, Judicial;   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Make;   Mediation;   Moses;   Salvation;   Sprinkle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Baptism;   Covenant;   Elohist;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 18;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words."
King James Version
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
Lexham English Bible
And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and he said, "Look, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words."
New Century Version
Then Moses took the blood from the bowls and sprinkled it on the people, saying, "This is the blood that begins the Agreement, the Agreement which the Lord has made with you about all these words."
New English Translation
So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words."
Amplified Bible
So Moses took the blood [which had been placed in the large basins] and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."
New American Standard Bible
So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses tooke the blood, & sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold, the blood of the couenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these things.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has cut with you in accordance with all these words."
Contemporary English Version
Moses took the blood from the bowls and sprinkled it on the people. Next, he told them, "With this blood the Lord makes his agreement with you."
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant which Adonai has made with you in accordance with all these words."
Darby Translation
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Moses held the bowls full of the blood from the sacrifices. He threw that blood on the people. He said, "This blood shows that the Lord has made a special agreement with you. The laws God gave you explain the agreement."
English Standard Version
And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words."
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.
Good News Translation
Then Moses took the blood in the bowls and threw it on the people. He said, "This is the blood that seals the covenant which the Lord made with you when he gave all these commands."
Christian Standard Bible®
Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.”
Literal Translation
And Moses took the blood and sprinkled on the people, and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant which Jehovah has cut with you concerning these words.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Moses toke the bloude, & sprenkled it vpon the people, & sayde: Beholde, this is ye bloude of the couenaunt that the LORDE maketh wt you vpon all these wordes.
American Standard Version
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses toke the blood, & sprinckled it on the people, and sayd: Beholde, this is the blood of the couenaut which the Lorde hath made with you vpon all these wordes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said: 'Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you in agreement with all these words.'
King James Version (1611)
And Moses tooke the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Couenant which the Lord hath made with you, concerning all these words.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.
English Revised Version
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Berean Standard Bible
So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe he took, and sprengide `the blood on the puple, and seide, This is the blood of the boond of pees, which the Lord couenauntide with yow on alle these wordis.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses taketh the blood, and sprinkleth on the people, and saith, `Lo, the blood of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you, concerning all these things.'
Update Bible Version
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Here is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold, the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
World English Bible
Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
New King James Version
And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you according to all these words."
New Living Translation
Then Moses took the blood from the basins and splattered it over the people, declaring, "Look, this blood confirms the covenant the Lord has made with you in giving you these instructions."
New Life Bible
So Moses took the blood and put some on the people. He said, "See, the blood of the agreement, which the Lord has made with you in these words."
New Revised Standard
Moses took the blood and dashed it on the people, and said, "See the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Moses took the blood, and dashed over the people, and said, Lo! the blood of the covenant which Yahweh hath solemnised with you, over all these words.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
Revised Standard Version
And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."
THE MESSAGE
Moses took the rest of the blood and threw it out over the people, saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has made with you out of all these words I have spoken."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

Contextual Overview

1 And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance. 2 And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them. 3 Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do. 4 Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord. 6 And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; draining out half of the blood over the altar. 7 And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws. 8 Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sprinkled: Exodus 24:6, Leviticus 8:30, Isaiah 52:15, Ezekiel 36:25, Hebrews 9:18-21

Behold: Zechariah 9:11, Matthew 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20, 1 Corinthians 11:25, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 9:20, Hebrews 10:4, Hebrews 10:5, Hebrews 13:20, 1 Peter 1:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:10 - I make Deuteronomy 5:2 - General Joshua 24:25 - made 1 Kings 8:9 - when 2 Kings 23:3 - made a covenant 2 Chronicles 5:10 - the Lord Psalms 103:18 - To such Ecclesiastes 9:7 - for Jeremiah 34:13 - I made Romans 9:4 - covenants Hebrews 9:19 - the blood Hebrews 12:24 - to the blood

Cross-References

Genesis 24:4
But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.
Genesis 24:17
And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.
Genesis 24:20
And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.
Numbers 30:5
But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.
Numbers 30:8
But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.
Joshua 9:20
This is what we will do to them: we will not put them to death, for fear that wrath may come on us because of our oath to them.
John 8:32
And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
Acts 7:2
And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses took the blood,.... The other half of the blood which was in the basins:

and sprinkled it on the people; not on the whole body of the people, who could not be brought nigh enough, and were too numerous to be all sprinkled with it; though the apostle so expresses it, a part being put for the whole, Hebrews 9:19 either this was sprinkled on the young men that offered the sacrifices in the name of all the people; or on the seventy elders, as the heads of them, so Aben Ezra; or upon the twelve pillars, which answered to the twelve tribes, and represented them as the altar did the Lord:

and said, behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words; being a ratification of the covenant on both sides, having been sprinkled both upon the altar, and upon the people. In allusion to which, the blood of Christ is sometimes called the blood of sprinkling, and which, sprinkled upon the mercy seat, calls for pardon for men; and sprinkled on their consciences, speaks peace and pardon to them, and cleanses from all sin; and sometimes the blood of the everlasting covenant, the covenant of grace made with him, by which it is ratified and confirmed; and our Lord may have regard to this rite and mode of expression in Matthew 26:28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The blood which sealed the covenant was the blood of burnt offerings and peace offerings. The sin-offering Leviticus 4:0 had not yet been instituted. That more complicated view of human nature which gave to the sin-offering its meaning, had yet to be developed by the law, which was now only receiving its ratification. The covenant between Yahweh and His people therefore took precedence of the operation of the law, by which came the knowledge of sin. Romans 3:20.

Upon the people - Either upon the elders or those who stood foremost; or, upon the twelve pillars representing the Twelve tribes, as the first half had been cast upon the altar, which witnessed to the presence of Yahweh. The blood thus divided between the two parties to the covenant signified the sacramental union between the Lord and His people. Cf. Psalms 50:5; Zechariah 9:11.


 
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