16 for where a covenant is, the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,

17 for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim lives,

18 whence not even the first apart from blood has been initiated,

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 both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle,

20 saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'