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Lexham English Bible

Hebrews 9:20

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Atonement;   Blood;   Colors;   Law;   Offerings;   Purification;   Quotations and Allusions;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Types;   The Topic Concordance - Sacrifice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Atonement, the;   Blood;   Covenant, the;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Law;   Priest;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Offerings and Sacrifices;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Altar;   Baptism ;   Knowledge of God (1);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Hebrews, the Epistle to the;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Day of Atonement;   Hebrews;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Moses;   Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blood;   Consecrate, Consecration;   Covenant;   Hebrews Epistle to the;   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Moses ;   Priest (2);   Sacrifice;   Sacrifices ;   Septuagint;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Blood;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Atonement, the Day of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Priest;   Sacrifice;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, the New;   Intercession of Christ;   Priest, High;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

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."
Contemporary English Version
He told the people, "With this blood God makes his agreement with you."
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."
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 And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, because a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions committed during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where there is a will, it is a necessity for the death of the one who made the will to be established. 17 For a will is in force concerning those who are dead, since it is never in force when the one who made the will is alive. 18 Therefore not even the first covenant was ratified without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, 20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you." 21 And likewise he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the utensils of service with the blood. 22 Indeed, nearly everything is purified with blood according to the law, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

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
And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:2
Then she bore his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 5:29
And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one shall relieve us from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.
Genesis 9:18
Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
Genesis 9:24
Then Noah awoke from his drunkenness, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him.
Genesis 9:26
Then he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave to them.
Deuteronomy 20:6
And who is the man that has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed it? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and another man enjoys it.
Deuteronomy 28:30
You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall sleep with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not live in it; a vineyard you shall plant, but you shall not enjoy it.
Proverbs 10:11
A fountain of life is a mouth of righteousness, and a mouth of wickedness conceals violence.

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 beriyt, 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.


 
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