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Hebrews 9:7

But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

KJV

εἰς δὲ τὴν δευτέραν ἅπαξ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ μόνος ὁ ἀρχιερεύς, οὐ χωρὶς αἵματος, ὃ προσφέρει ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τῶν τοῦ λαοῦ ἀγνοημάτων,

Greek NT

in secundo autem semel in anno solus pontifex non sine sanguine, quem offert pro sua et populi ignorantia :

Vulgate

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:

ASV

But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people's ignorance:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἷμα
aima
noun · 97×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δεύτερος
deuteros
adjective · 42×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
μόνος
monos
adjective · 48×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
προσφέρω
prosphero
verb · 49×
χωρίς
choris
adverb · 41×
ἀγνόημα
agnoema
noun · 1×
ἀρχιερεύς
archiereus
noun · 121×
ἅπαξ
apax
adverb · 14×
ἐνιαυτός
eniautos
noun · 14×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑπέρ
uper
preposition · 148×

Intertextual echoes

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

  • Lev 16:15 · allusion
    "Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:"
    Leviticus: the high priest enters the Most Holy Place once a year

Themes

Historic Christian voices

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

§433The name of the Saviour God was invoked only once in the year by the high priest in atonement for the sins of Israel, after he had sprinkled the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies with the sacrificial blood. the mercy seat was the place of God's presence.25 When St. Paul speaks of Jesus whom "God put forward as an expiation by his blood", he means that in Christ's humanity "God w…
1. He has shown from the Priest, from the Priesthood, from the Covenant, that that [dispensation] was to have an end. From this point he shows it from the fashion of the tabernacle itself. How? This, he says, [was] the Holy and the Holy of Holies. The holy place then is a symbol of the former period (for there all things are done by means of sacrifices); but the Holy of Holies …

Cross-references

  • 1John 5:6 — This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
  • Exod 30:10 — And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it
  • Exod 30:10 — And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it
  • Heb 5:3 — And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
  • Heb 6:19 — Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
  • Heb 7:27 — Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
  • Heb 7:27 — Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
  • Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Heb 9:24 — 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:
  • Heb 9:25 — Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
  • Heb 10:3 — But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
  • Heb 10:19 — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
  • Heb 10:19 — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
  • Hos 4:12 — My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
  • Isa 3:12 — As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
  • Isa 9:16 — For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
  • Isa 28:7 — But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way t
  • Lev 4:2 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of t
  • Lev 5:18 — And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherei
  • Lev 9:7 — And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make
  • Lev 16:2 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will
  • Lev 16:3 — Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
  • Lev 16:6 — And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
  • 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.
  • Lev 16:15 — Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the m
  • Lev 16:34 — And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • Lev 16:34 — And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
  • Ps 19:12 — Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
  • Rom 10:4 — For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.