16 For where a covenant is, a necessity is to present the death of the man who made the covenant.

17 For a covenant is effective with the dead, since it is never enforced while the man who made the covenant lives.

18 Whereupon neither has the first been dedicated without blood.

19 For of every commandment according to law that was spoken by Moses to all the people, after taking the blood of the calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

20 saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God made for you.