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Numbered Notation (also called Jianpu, 简谱) writes each melody note as a number from 1 to 7 instead of a note on a staff. The number shows the note's position in the song's scale -- not its exact pitch -- so the same tune looks identical no matter what key it's sung in.

Within one octave, the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 correspond to the familiar do re mi fa sol la ti. A dot above a number raises it an octave higher; a dot below lowers it an octave lower -- no dot means the middle, as-written octave.

A plain number lasts one beat. A dash (-) right after a number holds that same note for one more beat. A line underneath a number shortens it instead -- one line is half a beat, two lines a quarter of a beat. A 0 is a rest: silence for one beat.

The label at the top of the sheet, like "1=C" or "1=Ab", shows which pitch scale degree 1 ("do") is tuned to. A song in a minor key is labeled "6=X" instead -- scale degree 6 ("la") is the true tonic. Chord names printed above the notes (like "C" or "G7") always use their familiar letter names, never numbers.

For example, under a "1=C" heading, the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sound as C D E F G A B. Under a "1=G" heading, those very same numbers sound as G A B C D E F# instead -- same shape, different key.

Precious, precious blood of Jesus

Gospel The Blood

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Precious, precious blood of Jesus,
Shed on Calvary;
Shed for rebels, shed for sinners,
Shed for thee.
 
Precious, precious blood of Jesus
Ever flowing free;
Oh, believe it; oh, receive it,
’Tis for thee.
2
Precious, precious blood of Jesus,
Let it make thee whole;
Let it flow in mighty cleansing,
O’er thy soul.
3
Though thy sins are red like crimson,
Deep in scarlet glow,
Jesus’ precious blood shall wash thee,
White as snow.
4
Precious blood that hath redeemed us!
All the price is paid;
Perfect pardon now is offered,
Peace is made.
5
Now the holiest with boldness
We may enter in;
For the open fountain cleanseth
From all sin.
6
Precious blood, by this we conquer
In the fiercest fight,
Sin and Satan overcoming
By its might.
7
Precious blood whose full redemption
Makes us nigh to God;
Precious blood, our way of glory,
Praise and laud.

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A Brother

United States

Apr 11, 2025

1 Peter 1:18 and 19 says:

Knowing that it was not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, that you were redeemed from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers, But with precious blood, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ;

The blood of Christ, by which we are sprinkled and thus marked out from the common people, is more precious than silver and gold. The highest price was paid for our redemption that we might be redeemed from a vain manner of life to a holy life (15, vv. 18). For this we should have a holy fear, a healthy, serious caution before God, so that, as God's elect, redeemed with such a high price, we will not miss the purpose of this most high redemption of Christ.

Note one of 1 Peter 1:19

of the Recovery Version (LSM)

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YR

Mar 14, 2021

praise Him for the precious blood!

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Chun Wang

Dallas, TX

Aug 23, 2019

Amen, the cross of Christ is timeless, and the precious blood of Jesus is ever available to us to cleanse us from every sin (1 John: 7, 9). Praise Him!

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Fagbeja Feyisara

Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria

Jul 10, 2019

There is nothing wrong with the statement in the chorus that the blood is ever flowing free. Songs like this are inspired by the Holy Spirit. More so, every message about the cross is deeper than head knowledge or literal sense that could be applied.

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Peter Alaimo

Tuckahoe, NY, United States

Jul 19, 2018

The Divine Liturgy in its Western Rite does indeed emphasize the Cross, as the Eastern one emphasizes the Resurrection. What we forget is that the Cross is about Victory, that inherent in it is the Resurrection. And that the Victory is in the Blood of Jesus. Poured out on the new Mercy Seat, the Blood of Christ atones for all sin, once for all. The victory is won. And the victory not only atones, it deifies. As the prayer of the mingling says, "As this water mingles with this wine, may He who condescended to share our humanity, enable us to share in His Divinity." The chalice, as one says in the East, is "The chalice of immortality." No sin, no evil, no demon, can stand when we are sprinkled with the Blood of the Lamb!

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Anonymous

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

May 2, 2018

This song rose up in my morning time today. Precious, precious blood. I think we sang this three times in our last Lord’s day meeting.

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Tim Ou

Austin, Texas, United States

Mar 11, 2018

All the price is paid.

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Henrich Brockhaus

Bellingham, WA, United States

May 18, 2016

The precious blood of Jesus can never be overemphasized, because it was enough to cover all the sins of the world and it is still effective in blotting out the sins of every person who comes to Christ repentantly. The power of the blood keeps Satan in check and through it Christ wants us to be victorious in all spheres of life.

I do have some issue with the chorus. The blood is not "ever flowing free!" It only flowed once and Christ is not hanging on the cross any longer; the empty cross reminds us of a work completed. Christ Himself said "It is finished!" Ever since Christ's death we have free access to God our Father through the blood once shed. Praise God for the "PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS, SHED [past time] ON CALVARY."

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