16 For where a covenant [is], the death of him covenanting must be offered.

17 For a covenant [is] affirmed over [those] dead, since it never has force when The one covenanting is living.

18 From which we see that neither was the first [covenant] dedicated without blood.

19 For [when] Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law, [he] took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

20 saying, This [is] the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.