16 for where a covenant [is], [it is] necessary to establish the death of the [one] having made [it], 17 for a covenant is affirmed at death, since it is not in force at all when the [one] having made [it] lives, 18 for which reason, not even the first has been initiated apart from blood, 19 for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, 20 saying, "This [is] the blood of the covenant that God enjoined to you,"