saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
- BSB saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”
- NKJV saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”
- NASB saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you.”
- NLT Then he said, “This blood confirms the covenant God has made with you.”
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- Exod 24:8Moses 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.”
- Matt 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- Deut 29:12that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today;
- Zech 9:11As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
- Josh 9:6They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”
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