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Hebrews 9:19

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,

KJV

λαληθείσης γὰρ πάσης ἐντολῆς κατὰ νόμον ὑπὸ Μωϋσέως παντὶ τῷ λαῷ, λαβὼν τὸ αἷμα τῶν μόσχων καὶ τῶν τράγων μετὰ ὕδατος καὶ ἐρίου κοκκίνου καὶ ὑσσώπου αὐτό τε τὸ βιβλίον καὶ πάντα τὸν λαὸν ἐράντισεν,

Greek NT

Lecto enim omni mandato legis a Moyse universo populo, accipiens sanguinem vitulorum et hircorum cum aqua, et lana coccinea, et hyssopo, ipsum quoque librum, et omnem populum aspersit,

Vulgate

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

ASV

For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

24 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Μωσεύς
moseus
noun · 81×
αἷμα
aima
noun · 97×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βιβλίον
biblion
noun · 32×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
κόκκινος
kokkinos
adjective · 6×
λαλέω
laleo
verb · 298×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
μόσχος
moschos
noun · 6×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
τράγος
tragos
noun · 4×
ἐντολή
entole
noun · 66×
ἔριον
erion
noun · 2×
o
article · 19778×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×
ὕδωρ
udor
noun · 76×
ὕσσωπος
ussopos
noun · 2×
ῥαντίζω
rantizo
verb · 5×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Exod 24:3 · allusion
    "And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do."
    Exodus: Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: τὸν | WH/Treg/NIV: τὸν
  • τὸνSBLGNT
  • τὸνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: μόσχων | NIV: μόσχων | WH/Treg/NA: + καὶ τῶν τράγων | RP: καὶ τράγων
  • μόσχωνSBLGNT
  • μόσχωνReader's GNT (NA27)
  • + καὶ τῶν τράγωνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27
  • καὶ τράγωνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 1:2 — Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
  • Deut 4:13 — And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
  • Deut 5:2 — The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
  • Exod 12:22 — And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the
  • Exod 24:5 — And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
  • Ezek 36:25 — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
  • Ezek 36:25 — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
  • Heb 9:12 — Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
  • Heb 10:4 — For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
  • Heb 10:22 — Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
  • Heb 11:28 — Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
  • John 2:6 — And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
  • Josh 2:18 — Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and al
  • Lev 14:4 — Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
  • Lev 14:4 — Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
  • Lev 14:7 — And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
  • Lev 16:14 — And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
  • Num 19:6 — And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
  • Num 19:18 — And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one s
  • Ps 51:7 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.