16 For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.

17 For a testament is of force where there has been death: for it does never avail while he who made it lives.

18 Therefore even the first [covenant] has not been dedicated without blood.

19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

20 saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded toward you{}.