Exodus 24:3-8
3Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and aall the rules. ▼▼Or all the just decrees
And all the people answered with one voice and said, c“All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do.” 4And dMoses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve epillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. 6And fMoses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. 7Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, g“All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8 hAnd 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.” Matthew 26:28
28for ithis is my jblood of the ▼▼Some manuscripts insert new
covenant, which is poured out for lmany mfor the forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 9:10-23
10but deal only with nfood and drink and ovarious washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.Redemption Through the Blood of Christ
11But when Christ appeared as a high priest pof the good things that have come, ▼▼Some manuscripts good things to come
then through rthe greater and more perfect tent ( snot made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12he tentered uonce for all into the holy places, not by means of vthe blood of goats and calves but wby means of his own blood, xthus securing an eternal redemption. 13For if ythe blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with zthe ashes of a heifer, sanctify ▼▼Or For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies
for the purification of the flesh, 14how much more will abthe blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit acoffered himself without blemish to God, adpurify our ▼▼Some manuscripts your
conscience affrom dead works agto serve the living God. 15Therefore he is ahthe mediator of a new covenant, so that aithose who are called may ajreceive the promised eternal inheritance, aksince a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. ▼
▼The Greek word means both covenant and will; also verses 16, 17
16For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. 17For ama will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. 18Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated anwithout blood. 19For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took aothe blood of calves and goats, apwith water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20saying, aq“This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” 21And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both arthe tent and all the vessels used in worship. 22Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and aswithout the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. 23Thus it was necessary for atthe copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 12:24
24and to Jesus, authe mediator of a new covenant, and to avthe sprinkled blood awthat speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.Hebrews 13:20
Benediction
20Now axmay the God of peace aywho brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, azthe great shepherd of the sheep, by bathe blood of the eternal covenant,
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