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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 9, Verse 17

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For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
King James Version
Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood.
American Standard Version
Wherefore even the first [covenant] hath not been dedicated without blood.
New English Translation
“Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’”
World English Bible
For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
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For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
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Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
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Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
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[It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
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Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
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For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.