16 For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity intervene [the] death of the testator.

17 For a testament [is] confirmed by the death: otherwise it is not valid as long as the testator lives.

18 From which came that not even the first [one] was dedicated without blood.

19 For when Moses had read every commandment of the law to all the people, taking the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book and all the people,

20 saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God has commanded unto you.