“According to the law, in fact, nearly everything must be purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.”
Hebrews 9:22
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Connection with the covenant of the rainbow
Genesis 9 says human blood is so weighty that God Himself will require an accounting for it. The writer of Hebrews carried that weight to the cross: "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness" (Hebrews 9:22). The blood God guarded in Genesis was the very price He would one day pay, in His own Son, to buy back the image-bearers who spilled it.
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Blood on the doorposts — without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness
“They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.”
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