Hebrews 9:20

Contemporary English Version

He told the people, "With this blood God makes his agreement with you."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you.

King James Version (1611)
Saying, This is the blood of the Testament which God hath enioyned vnto you.

King James Version
Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

English Standard Version
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you."

New American Standard Bible
saying, "THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD COMMANDED YOU."

New Century Version
He said, "This is the blood that begins the Agreement that God commanded you to obey."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
saying, "THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD COMMANDED YOU."

Legacy Standard Bible
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you."

Berean Standard Bible
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep."

Complete Jewish Bible
and he said, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has ordained for you."

Darby Translation
saying, This [is] the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then he said, "This is the blood that makes the agreement good—the agreement that God commanded you to follow."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Saying, This is the blood of the Testament, which God hath appointed vnto you.

George Lamsa Translation
Saying, This is the blood of the testament, which has been ordained for you by God.

Good News Translation
He said, "This is the blood which seals the covenant that God has commanded you to obey."

Lexham English Bible
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you."

Literal Translation
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God enjoined to you." Ex. 24:8

Amplified Bible
saying, "THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT [that seals and ratifies the agreement] WHICH GOD ORDAINED and COMMANDED [me to deliver to] YOU."

American Standard Version
saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward.

Bible in Basic English
Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.

Hebrew Names Version
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded toward you."

International Standard Version
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God ordained for you."Exodus 24:8">[fn]Exodus 24:8; Matthew 26:28;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
and said to them, This is the blood of that covenant which is commanded by Aloha.

Murdock Translation
and said to them, This is the blood of the covenant which is enjoined by God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saying: This [is] the blood of the testament, whiche God hath enioyned vnto you.

English Revised Version
saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward.

World English Bible
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded toward you."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
and sprinkled all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you.

Weymouth's New Testament
saying, "This is the blood which confirms the Covenant that God has made binding upon you."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, This is the blood of the testament, that God comaundide to you.

Update Bible Version
saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded toward you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined to you.

New English Translation
and said, " This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep ."

New King James Version
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you." Exodus 24:8">[fn]

New Living Translation
Then he said, "This blood confirms the covenant God has made with you."

New Life Bible
Moses said, "This is the blood of the Way of Worship which God said you must obey."

New Revised Standard
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Saying - This, is the blood of the covenant which, God, hath sent in command unto you:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

Revised Standard Version
saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
sayinge: this is the bloud of the testament which god hath apoynted vnto you.

Young's Literal Translation
saying, `This [is] the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
sayenge: This is the bloude of the Testament, which God hath appoynted vnto you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
saying, "this is the blood of the testament which God has made in your behalf."

Simplified Cowboy Version
He said, "The blood seals the deal between God and his people."

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Christ died to rescue those who had sinned and broken the old agreement. Now he brings his chosen ones a new agreement with its guarantee of God's eternal blessings! ¹⁶ In fact, making an agreement of this kind is like writing a will. This is because the one who makes the will must die before it is of any use. ¹⁷ In other words, a will doesn't go into effect as long as the one who made it is still alive. ¹⁸ Blood was also used to put the first agreement into effect. ¹⁹ Moses told the people all that the Law said they must do. Then he used red wool and a hyssop plant to sprinkle the people and the book of the Law with the blood of bulls and goats and with water. ²⁰ He told the people, "With this blood God makes his agreement with you." ²¹ Moses also sprinkled blood on the tent and on everything else that was used in worship. ²² The Law says that almost everything must be sprinkled with blood, and no sins can be forgiven unless blood is offered.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This: Hebrews 13:20, Zechariah 9:11, Matthew 26:28

testament: Rather, covenant. Hebrews 9:16, and Hebrews 9:17, may be better rendered, "For where a covenant is, there must necessarily be the death of that by which it is confirmed; for a covenant is confirmed over dead victims, and does not avail while that by which it is confirmed liveth." Deuteronomy 29:12, Joshua 9:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:8 - Behold Deuteronomy 4:13 - And he Hebrews 10:29 - the blood

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made.

Genesis 4:2
Later she had another son and named him Abel. Abel became a sheep farmer, but Cain farmed the land.

Genesis 5:29
Lamech said, "I'll name him Noah because he will give us comfort, as we struggle hard to make a living on this land that the Lord has put under a curse."

Genesis 9:18
Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, came out of the boat. Ham later had a son named Canaan.

Genesis 9:19
All people on earth are descendants of Noah's three sons.

Genesis 9:24
When Noah woke up and learned what his youngest son had done,

Genesis 9:26
I ask the Lord my God to bless Shem and make Canaan his slave.

Deuteronomy 20:6
If any of you have planted a vineyard but haven't had your first grape harvest, you may go home. It isn't right for you to die in battle and for somebody else to enjoy your grapes.

Deuteronomy 28:30
A man will be engaged to a woman, but before they can get married, she will be raped by enemy soldiers. Some of you will build houses, but never get to live in them. If you plant a vineyard, you won't be around long enough to enjoy the first harvest.

Proverbs 10:11
The words of good people are a source of life, but evil hides behind the words of the wicked.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saying, this is the blood of the testament,.... The first testament or covenant; this proves what the apostle had asserted in Hebrews 9:18 that it was dedicated with blood, or confirmed by it; compare with this Matthew 26:28

which God hath enjoined unto you; the people of Israel, to observe, and which they promised to do; see Exodus 24:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Saying, This is the blood of the testament - Of the covenant; see notes on Hebrews 9:16-17. That is, this is the blood by which the covenant is ratified. It was the means used to confirm it; the sacred and solemn form by which it was made sure. When this was done, the covenant between God and the people was confirmed - as a covenant between man and man is when it is sealed.

Which God hath enjoined unto you - In Exodus 24:8, “which God hath made with you.” The language used by Paul, “which God hath enjoined” - ἐνετείλατο eneteilato - “commanded” - shows that he did not regard this as strictly of the nature of a “covenant,” or “compact.” When a compact is made between parties, one does not “enjoin” or “command” the other, but it is a mutual “agreement.” In the transactions between God and man, though called בּרית b^eriyt, or διαθήκη diathēkē, the idea of a “covenant” or “compact” is so far excluded that God never loses his right to “command” or “enjoin.” It is not a transaction between equals, or an “agreement;” it is a solemn “arrangement” on the part of God which he proposes to mankind, and which he enjoins them to embrace; which they are not indeed at liberty to disregard, but which when embraced is appropriately ratified by some solemn act on their part; compare notes on Hebrews 8:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. This is the blood of the testament — (covenant.) Our Lord refers to the conduct of Moses here, and partly quotes his words in the institution of the eucharist: This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins, Matthew 26:28. And by thus using the words and applying them, he shows that his sacrificial blood was intended by the blood shed and sprinkled on this occasion, and that by it alone the remission of sins is obtained.