Hebrews 9

16 For where there is a will, it is a necessity for the death of the one who made the will to be established. 17 For a will is in force concerning those who are dead, since it is never in force when the one who made the will is alive. 18 Therefore not even the first covenant was ratified without blood. 19 For when**Here "when" is supplied as a component of the temporal participle ("had been spoken") every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves*Some manuscripts have "calves and goats" with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, 20 saying,

"This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you."*A quotation from Exod 24:8